It is possible that the inclusion of studies on the basis of their use of discrete intervention techniques (for example, goal-setting, practice of structured tasks, and use of specific learning strategies such as errorless learning), rather than whether they fit neatly into the definitions offered here, will prove to be more informative.
Next to discrete interventions, automatic stabilizers may have played an important role during the Great Recession.
The time series quasi-experiment was proposed initially by Campbell (1963) as a means of assessing the causal effect of a discrete intervention on a social science time series.
As a supportive treatment, EGDT employs extremely tight control of several physiological parameters (such as central venous pressure, mean arterial blood pressure, central venous oxygen saturation, and haematocrit) with discrete interventions of crystalloid fluid, vasopressors and blood transfusions.
Campbell and Stanley (1966) recommend the time series quasi-experiment for assessing the causal effect of a discrete intervention on a time series.
It is difficult to determine the impact of any discrete intervention.
A total of 78 studies, describing 62 discrete interventions, were identified.
Moreover, the content of country-specific systems writing, as portrayed by keyword galaxies, remains more focused on describing component solutions or disease-specific epidemiological outcomes of discrete technical interventions rather than on methods or results that focus on the process of changing organizational functioning or strengthening health systems.
While objectives, targets, and an inventory of measures are part of the White Paper, policies recommended for implementation are treated separately as discrete interventions.
Factorial experiments permit analyses of the influence of patient characteristics on main and interaction effects of multiple, relatively discrete, intervention components.
