TY - JOUR AU - Mills, Thomas AU - Lawton, Rebecca AU - Sheard, Laura PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/12 TI - Advancing complexity science in healthcare research: the logic of logic models JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 55 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Logic models are commonly used in evaluations to represent the causal processes through which interventions produce outcomes, yet significant debate is currently taking place over whether they can describe complex interventions which adapt to context. This paper assesses the logic models used in healthcare research from a complexity perspective. A typology of existing logic models is proposed, as well as a formal methodology for deriving more flexible and dynamic logic models. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0701-4 DO - 10.1186/s12874-019-0701-4 ID - Mills2019 ER -