Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Developing and Testing Complex Healthcare Interventions
When significant changes are made to health service delivery it is vital that they improve patient care, represent value for money to the health system and are safe. This course from the University of Bergen explored the importance of fully developing and testing any new ideas for service delivery in health (complex interventions) before performing the final definitive trial. The course reviewed the process of conducting a trial and disseminating results to maximise the opportunity for success.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
David Wright
Professor in Clinical Pharmacy at the Centre for Pharmacy,
University of Bergen
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the process for complex intervention evaluation and explain the rationale
- Describe how to design and develop a complex intervention
- Describe the role of behavioural and implementation science
- Develop a logic model to underpin a complex intervention
- Describe how to select the most appropriate outcome measures to evaluate a complex intervention
- Explain the benefits of involving patients and the public in health services research design and delivery
- Explain the rationale for undertaking a feasibility study
- Explain the purpose of process evaluation and how to undertake it
- Explain the purpose of the inclusion of Health Economics and Statistics
- Explain the rationale for undertaking a pilot study
- Describe how to conduct a randomised controlled trial
- Describe how to perform a process evaluation
- Describe how to effectively disseminate your study findings
- Explain the concept of a complex intervention
Syllabus
- Developing complex interventions
- Logic models & outcome selection
- The role of behavioural and implementation science
- Involving patients in research design
- Feasibility and pilot studies
- Incorporating Health Economics into trials
- Sample size calculation, power and statistics
- Designing and delivering a Randomised Controlled Trial
- Optimising impact from research activities
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Issued on 3rd November 2026
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