Access to primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: exploring realist theory using structural equation modelling in a linked dataset

Abstract Background Realist approaches seek to answer questions such as ‘how?’, ‘why?’, ‘for whom?’, ‘in what circumstances?’ and ‘to what extent?’ interventions ‘work’ using context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations. Quantitative methods are not well-established in realist approaches, but stru...

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Main Authors: John A. Ford, Andy Jones, Geoff Wong, Allan Clark, Tom Porter, Nick Steel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-018-0514-x