Analysis focused on capturing patterns of similarity and variation in the implementation of supervision activities and their outcomes, uncovering indications of the mechanisms underlying the activities that explain how they contributed to the different outcomes observed, and understanding the influence of context on the process of supervision and its outcomes.
Disturbing details about the way that people - who would not themselves benefit from the trial - were recruited to it, and the intense commercial interest in its outcome, were uncovered.
Interviews and focus groups aimed to gather participants' views on whether the activities set out in the LMs were taking place as intended, as well as to identify 'active ingredients' perceived to contribute to programme outcomes and uncover any perceived risks to the achievement of outcomes.
The growing trend of mediator and moderator research to explain the relationship between HR practices and outcomes and uncover factors that influence this association, as well as less usage of same source data to measure the HR and outcome variables are also positive changes.
These approaches focus on assessing the validity of the theory on which an intervention is built and are concerned with opening up the "black box" of interventions and outcomes to uncover underlying mechanisms [ 8].
Our ethnographic process evaluation employed weekly diaries by clinic-based study employees, observation, informal and formal interviews, document review, surveys, and group discussions to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation success, provide insight into the quantitative study outcomes, and uncover lessons potentially transferable to other implementation projects.
We sought to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation success, provide insight into the quantitative study outcomes, and uncover lessons potentially transferable to other implementation projects [ 10, 34] – and to do so in a methodologically rigorous manner acceptable to busy primary care clinicians.
Animal experiments specifically designed to uncover outcomes suitable for epidemiological research are needed.
In fact, new harmful errors may be uncovered and worse outcomes have been reported with computerized physician order entry in the ICU [ 17].
Furthermore, as recently discussed by other treatment researchers, both psychological and biological outcome measures can uncover more detailed information about the complexity of treatment response.
