A realist evaluation of the management of a well- performing regional hospital in Ghana
Open Access
- 25 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 10 (1) , 24
Abstract
Realist evaluation offers an interesting approach to evaluation of interventions in complex settings, but has been little applied in health care. We report on a realist case study of a well performing hospital in Ghana and show how such a realist evaluation design can help to overcome the limited external validity of a traditional case study.Keywords
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