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Naturalistic approaches to health care evaluation: the case of a teenage cancer unit

Mullhall, A., Kelly, Daniel M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-0655 and Pearce, Susan 2001. Naturalistic approaches to health care evaluation: the case of a teenage cancer unit. Journal of Clinical Excellence 3 (4) , pp. 167-173.

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Abstract

The commitment of the NHS to pursue clinical excellence and to make more overt decisions concerning the funding of services has precipitated a raft of quality initiatives, including the establishment of National Service Frameworks, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and the Commission for Health Improvement. Integral to the functioning of these bodies is the availability of evidence concerning the effectiveness of treatments/services/strategies. Within this climate, evaluation research takes on an increasingly important role. Traditional evaluations are based on experimental methodologies, but other approaches embedded in the naturalistic/interpretative paradigm have been proposed. These latter approaches purport to capture 'process' rather than just outcome, encompass pluralistic stakeholder viewpoints, and provide in-depth 'rich' descriptions of context. This paper discusses naturalistic evaluations using, as an example, an evaluation of a teenage cancer unit. It concludes that, despite having drawbacks, naturalistic evaluations have a valuable role to play in health service research.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Healthcare Sciences
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
R Medicine > RT Nursing
Uncontrolled Keywords: EVALUATION; NATURALISTIC; EVALUATION; QUALITY; TEENAGE; CANCER
ISSN: 1465-9883
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2022 13:17
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/13392

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