Planning and evaluating health programs: contributions of the RE-AIM framework to Nursing

Abstract

To address this issue, Glasgow et al.^{( 4 )} suggested that the success of health programs should be evaluated based on both individual and organizational factors. In that seminal article they introduced the RE-AIM framework (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) as a method to balance the focus of research on both internal and external validity and it included outcomes that are operationalized at the individual level, the organizational level, or both.