Healthcare Economist August 26, 2024
The RE-AIM framework developed by Glasgow et al. (1999) has five evaluation components.
- Reach: share of people from a given population who participate in a program and their characteristics. For instance, organizational reach with stakeholders could be indirect, intended or direct. Reach is the number of participants in the program divided by the size of the target population.
- Effectiveness: positive and negative program outcomes. These are typically measured as the share of participants who experience given positive and negative program outcomes. In addition to patient clinical outcomes, other types of outcomes include (i) behavioral outcomes for participants (e.g., smoking cessation, eating patterns, physical activity), (ii) outcomes for staff who deliver an intervention (approaching patients, delivering prompts and counseling, making...