Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements

Part I Introduction: Concepts
Evaluating health interventions, improvements and theirimplementation
Evaluation tools and concepts
Quick start: How do I plan and carry out an evaluation?
Designs

Part II Introduction: Example evaluations - do they answerusers' questions?
Evaluating interventions to patients and patient performance
Evaluating interventions to professionals and performanceevaluations
Evaluating interventions to health services and performance
Evaluating interventions to health systems and performance
Evaluating population health interventions and publichealth service performance

Part III Introduction: Evaluation subjects
Evaluating implementation
Evaluating digital health technologies
Evaluating complex social interventions
Evaluating return on investment and value improvements
Economic evaluation

Glossary
References
Index

About the Author

John Øvretveit is an award-winning author and Professor of health improvement, implementation and evaluation at the Karolinska Institute Academic Medical Center in Stockholm where he is Director of research at the medical management center of the Learning Informatics Management and Ethics Department.