Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist?
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Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist?
In this paper, we respond to a paper by Jamal and colleagues published in Trials in October 2015 and take an opportunity to continue the much-needed debate about what applied scientific realism is. The paper by Jamal et al. is useful because it exposes the challenges of combining a realist evaluation approach (as developed by Pawson and Tilley) with the randomised controlled trial (RCT) design....
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عنوان ژورنال: Trials
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1407-0