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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....

Ali RASSOULI*, Alwan AL-QUSHAWI, Fatemeh ATYABI, Seyed Mostafa PEIGHAMBARI, Mehdi ESFANDYARI-MANESH, Gholam Reza SHAMS Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehra...

See paper by Sirdah MM et al. on pages 132-8. *Corresponding author at: Islamic University of Gaza, Jamal Abdel Naser Street, P.O. Box 108 Gaza, Palestine. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. E. Shubair). 1516-8484/$ see front matter © 2014 Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.2...

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