Table 2 Summary of implementation outcome measures
Outcome | Data collected |
|---|---|
Effectiveness | Length of stay: (calendar nights from electronic medical records) |
Primary outcome: acute care ward length of stay | |
Rehabilitation ward length of stay | |
Total hospital length of stay | |
Performance tests: | |
* 30-s chair-stand test at Day 7 post-operatively | |
* Modified Iowa Level of Assistance at Day 7 post-operatively | |
Safety | Adverse events: |
* Incident reports from existing standardised reporting mechanisms (Incident Information Management System) in NSW Health | |
* Records of clinical emergency response system calls from medical records | |
* Complication data from medical records | |
* Intensive care admission data from medical records | |
Discharge destinations: | |
* Discharge destination from the acute care ward, rehabilitation ward (if relevant) and supports needed on discharge services, sourced from medical records | |
Acceptability | * Qualitative interview, focus group and survey data from patients, carers, and healthcare staff involved in the implementation, and/or providing orthogeriatric care |
Open and closed question survey data will be reported here, with qualitative interview and focus group data reported separately | |
Feasibility and uptake | * Physiotherapy occasions of service from existing standardised reporting mechanisms in NSW Health to measure adherence to intervention |
(This was compared to predicted occasions of service as per individual site implementation plans.) | |
* Uptakeāpercentage of eligible patients who were provided the higher daily frequency intervention | |
* Explanatory audit data from medical records regarding reasons for non-adherence to intervention (e.g. reasons for declining participation in session, early cessation of treatment) | |
Implementation cost (health service perspective) | * Hospital costs using existing data generated by local hospital clinical coding department based on ICD-10 diagnostic coding |
* Staffing costs/time for implementing non-physiotherapy workforce including supervision, upskilling, training incorporating existing requirements |