Expanding the evidence within evidence-based healthcare: thinking about the context, acceptability and feasibility of interventions

Rachel L. Shaw*, Michael Larkin, Paul Flowers

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Abstract

Evidence-based medicine is crucial to contemporary healthcare. It is dependent on systematic review methodology modelled on an arguably inadequate hierarchy of evidence. There has been a significant increase in medical and health research using qualitative and mixed method designs. The perspective taken in this article is that we need to broaden our evidence base if we are to fully take account of issues of context, acceptability and feasibility in the development and implementation of healthcare interventions. One way of doing this is to use a range of methods that better fit the different aspects of intervention development and implementation. Methods for the systematic review of evidence, other than randomised-controlled trials, are available and there is a readiness to incorporate these other types of evidence into good-practice guidance, but we need a clear methodology to translate these advances in research into the world of policy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)201-203
Number of pages3
JournalEvidence-based Medicine
Volume19
Issue number6
Early online date5 May 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Bibliographical note

This article has been accepted for publication in Evidence-based medicine
following peer review. The definitive copyedited, typeset version Shaw, R. L., Larkin, M., & Flowers, P. (2014). Expanding the evidence within evidence-based healthcare: thinking about the context, acceptability and feasibility of interventions. Evidence-based medicine, 19(6), 201-203 is available online at:
http://ebm.bmj.com/content/19/6/201

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