Supporting the implementation of new healthcare technologies by investigating generalisability of pilot studies using area-level statistics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation of new technologies into national health care systems requires careful capacity planning. This is sometimes informed by data from pilot studies that implement the technology on a small scale in selected areas. A critical consideration when using implementation pilot studies for capacity planning in the wider system is generalisability. We studied the feasibility of using publicly available national statistics to determine the degree to which results from a pilot might generalise for non-pilot areas, using the English human papillomavirus (HPV) cervical screening pilot as an exemplar.

Methods

From a publicly available source on population indicators in England ("Public Health Profiles"), we selected seven area-level indicators associated with cervica

SUBMITTER: Doorbar JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9694587 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature