![]() This article provides an introduction to help clinicians, commissioners, and other healthcare professionals wishing to commission, interpret, or perform an impact evaluation of a health intervention. A diverse array of methodological literature can also make it hard to understand which methods to apply to analyse the data. However, there is a lack of guidance as to where relevant routine data can be found or accessed and how they can be linked to other data. ![]() 4Ī range of routinely collected administrative and clinically generated healthcare data could be used to evaluate the impact of interventions to improve care. ![]() ![]() 3 However, some healthcare interventions are implemented without high quality evaluation, in ways that require onerous data collection, or may not be evaluated at all. 2 Assessing the impact of these health interventions enables healthcare teams to learn and to improve services, and can inform future policy. Interventions to transform the delivery of health and social care are being implemented widely, such as those linked to Accountable Care Organizations in the United States, 1 or to integrated care systems in the UK. Assessing the impact of healthcare interventions is critical to inform future decisionsĬompare observed outcomes with what you would have expected if the intervention had not been implementedĪ wide range of routinely collected data is available for the evaluation of healthcare interventions
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