{"id":4778,"date":"2025-04-02T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=4778"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:29:10","password":"","slug":"effectiveness-2","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/effectiveness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the 3 E&#8217;s from the hugely influential monograph: Cochrane, A. L. (1972). Effectiveness and efficiency. Random reflections on health services. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cochrane&#8217;s terms effectiveness of an intervention was what you needed assuming you had shown efficacy (q.v.!)  It is the practicality of the intervention: can it be delivered realistically in routine practice and does it continue to work well in those conditions as opposed to the rather unrealistic conditions of efficacy studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a large extent this was the driver behind my involvement in developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coresystemtrust.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the CORE system<\/a> and the broad idea of Practice Based Evidence (PBE) for psychosocial interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/the-3-es-efficacy-effectiveness-efficiency\/\" title=\"\">The 3 E&#8217;s<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/efficacy\/\">Efficacy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/efficiency\/\" title=\"\">Efficiency<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/pbe-practice-based-evidence\/\" title=\"\">Practice Based Evidence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not covered specifically in the OMbook but the idea runs through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>None likely from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First created 2.iv.25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the 3 E&#8217;s from the hugely influential monograph: Cochrane, A. L. (1972). Effectiveness and efficiency. Random reflections on health services. Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust. Details In Cochrane&#8217;s terms effectiveness of an intervention was what you needed assuming you had shown efficacy (q.v.!) It is the practicality of the intervention: can it be delivered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/effectiveness-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Effectiveness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-4778","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":138,"total_views":"585","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4778\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}