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Intervention research: GAO experiences
Author(s) -
Grasso Patrick G.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199604)29:4<362::aid-ajim16>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - medicine , psychological intervention , extant taxon , variety (cybernetics) , data collection , intervention (counseling) , management science , data science , medical education , risk analysis (engineering) , nursing , computer science , artificial intelligence , engineering , statistics , mathematics , evolutionary biology , biology
This paper describes tools of program evaluation that may prove useful in conducting research on occupational health and safety interventions. It presents examples of three studies conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office that illustrate a variety of techniques for collecting and analyzing data on program interventions, including analysis of extant data, synthesis of results of existing studies, and combining data from administrative files with survey results. At the same time, it stresses the importance and difficulty of constructing an adequate “theory” of how the intervention is expected to affect outcomes, both for guiding data collection and for allowing adequate interpretation of results. (This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.) © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.