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Qualitative Comparative Analysis
While researching evaluating complex programs/complex systems, I came across an evaluation approach/method that I wasn’t familiar with: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). So I’ve done a bit of reading on this to see if it might be something I can use … Continue reading
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More readings on evaluation and complexity
I’m falling down a rabbit hole of reading on this topic! Here are some notes on more papers I’ve read lately… and there will be more (as again, this posting got quite long, so I’m just posting it now and … Continue reading
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Complexity and Evaluation
Notes from some readings on complexity and evaluation. A Review of Three Recent Books on Complexity and Evaluation Gerrits and Verweij (2015) reviewed three books that explored complexity and evaluation: Forss et al’s Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution, and Beyond … Continue reading
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Complex Adaptive Systems
We often hear that “The health care field is complex, perhaps the most complex of any area of the economy (Morrison, 200, cited in Begun et al, 2003). And yet despite the number of times I’ve heard this, I often … Continue reading
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Tagged complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity science, evaluation, notes, systems
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Context in Evaluation
I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to address the many layers of “context” in the evaluation that I’m currently working on and found a few articles that I found quite useful. Here are my notes from reading those articles. We often … Continue reading
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Some evaluation reading
A Practical Guide for Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Evaluation Questions “evaluation is all about asking and answering questions that matter” (p. 3) “evaluation can be an important strategic tool for measuring: the extent to which a program or initiative’s goals … Continue reading
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More on evaluating healthcare IT
Evaluating informatics applications – some alterative approaches: theory, social interactionism, and call for methodological pluralism evaluating informatics tools, such as clinical decision support tools, under controlled conditions doesn’t provide information about how context (including human and cultural factors) affect whether … Continue reading
CESBCY 2015 Conference – Collaboration, Contribution, and Collective Impact
Today was the Canadian Evaluation Society BC and Yukon (CESBCY) chapter’s conference. Now, I may be biased given that I was the conference Program Chair, but I think we had an outstanding program of presentations this year! But before you … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Evaluation Society, CES, CESBCY, CESBCY15, CESBCY2015, conference, conference notes, evaluation
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American Evalaution Association (AEA) Conference Sessions – Exemplary Evaluation
This year, the American Evaluation Association live streamed a bunch of their conference sessions for free! I didn’t get to watch as many as I would have liked 1Work meetings got in the way of some of them, some of … Continue reading
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Complexity of EHR implementation and evaluation design
As I’ve mentioned, I’m currently developing an evaluation for the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) system. Specifically, this project crosses multiple healthcare organizations, will be implemented in dozens of healthcare facilities run by those organizations, and will be used … Continue reading