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Monitoring unit-based innovations: a process evaluation approach.

G L Ingersoll·M T Bazar·J B Zentner
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A comprehensive program evaluation helps assure that the program envisioned is implemented; or helps determine why it failed. It strengthens assumption about causality by clarifying the relationships between intervention and outcome. A program evaluation planning map can be helpful in measuring the extent of professional practice model implementation.

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Decision Making, OrganizationalHumansModels, NursingNursing Evaluation ResearchNursing Staff, HospitalOutcome and Process Assessment, Health CarePatient Care TeamPersonnel SelectionProgram EvaluationJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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G L Ingersoll, M T Bazar, J B Zentner. Monitoring unit-based innovations: a process evaluation approach.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8345878/

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