Open AccessEvaluating a complex intervention with a single outcome may not be a good idea: an example from a randomised trial of stroke case management
Author(s) -
Nancy E. Mayo,
Susan C. Scott
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afr061
Subject(s) - medicine , outcome (game theory) , intervention (counseling) , stroke (engine) , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , mathematics , mathematical economics , engineering
o estimate the extent to which a case-management intervention for persons newly discharged into the community following an acute stroke effected a change in stroke outcome in comparison with usual care.
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