Table 4 Essential elements guiding the analysis undertaken
From: Innovation in mental health services: what are the key components of success?
1. To describe each project in depth in terms of its operation in practice, intended or unintended outcomes, the extent of any success or failure, conducive or impeding conditions, and the causal mechanisms involved in generating and ameliorating the problem using stakeholder accounts. |
|---|
2. To describe the unique features of each project and offer hypotheses about the extent these could be generalised to other contexts. |
3. To establish the extent to which the conducive conditions in each local project may be different in other localities with different personnel. |
4. To identify any patterns emerging between or across the projects, with a particular focus on spreading the lessons of innovation in mental health services. |
5. To identify any evidence in each locality about open systems and the impact these may have on the success of the individual projects. |