Democratic and participatory evaluation raises questions of power. Power lies not only in agenda setting and problem definition but also in formulating alternatives. The latter seems to have been forgotten in the literature on democratic evaluation. This may be partly due to the general neglect of assessing alternatives in evaluations, whether ex ante or ex post. The article distinguishes diffe...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This is a brief comment on the very interesting comparative effectiveness study of gabapentin and diclofenac on pain after tonsillectomy. Copyright © 2013, Kashan University of Medical Sciences; License Kowsar Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://crea...

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