A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

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Authors

Kathryn Skivington · MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Lynsay Matthews · MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Sharon Simpson · MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Peter Craig · MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

Janis Baird · MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit

Jane Blazeby · NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre

Kathleen Boyd

Abstract

The UK Medical Research Council’s widely used guidance for developing and evaluating complex interventions has been replaced by a new framework, commissioned jointly by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, which takes account of recent developments in theory and methods and the need to maximise the efficiency, use, and impact of research.

Topics & Keywords

Primary Care and Health Outcomes Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Health Policy Implementation Science

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the goals

Publication Details

Published in: BMJ

Volume 374, pp. n2061-n2061

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n2061

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