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Table 3 Evaluation steps in realistic evaluation

From: Exclusion of context knowledge in the development of prehospital guidelines: results produced by realistic evaluation

1.

Literature screening and creation of a theory

2.

Construction of a conjectured Context, Mechanism, Outcome (CMO) configuration

3.

Test of the conjectured CMO configuration by data collection

4.

Presentation of a refined CMO configuration (middle range theory)