A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance.

Kathryn Skivington

; Lynsay Matthews

; Sharon Anne Simpson

; Peter Craig

; Janis Baird

; Jane M Blazeby

; Kathleen Anne Boyd

; Neil Craig

; David P French

; Emma McIntosh

; +4 more... Mark Petticrew

; Jo Rycroft-Malone

; Martin White

; Laurence Moore

; (2021) A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 374. n2061-. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n2061

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The UK Medical Research Council’s widely used guidance for developing and evaluating complex interventions has been replaced by a new framework, commissioned jointly by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, which takes account of recent developments in theory and methods and the need to maximise the efficiency, use, and impact of research.