From: Social prescribing for people with complex needs: a realist evaluation
The realist methodology uses the following approaches judiciously and in combination: |
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• Organizing and collating primary data and producing preliminary thematic summaries of these |
• Repeated writing and rewriting of fragments of the case study |
• Presenting, defending, and negotiating particular interpretations of actions and events both within the research team and also to the stakeholders themselves |
• Testing these interpretations by explicitly seeking disconfirming or contradictory data |
• Considering other interpretations that might account for the same findings |
• Using cross-case comparisons to determine how the same or submechanism plays out in different contexts and produces different outcomes, thereby allowing inferences about the generative causality of different contexts |
From Greenhalgh, T., Humphrey, C., MacFarlane, F., Bulter, C., & Pawson, R. (2009) |