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Courtney C Kennedy1, Lehana Thabane2, George Ioannidis1
1Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Objectives:
To evaluate the feasibility of implementing an interdisciplinary, multifaceted knowledge translation intervention within long-term care (LTC) and to identify any challenges that should be considered in designing future studies.
Design:
Cluster randomized controlled trial.
Setting:
Forty LTC homes across the province of Ontario, Canada.
Participants:
LTC teams composed of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other staff.
Measurements:
Cluster-level feasibility measures, including recruitment, retention, data completion, and participation in the intervention. A process evaluation was completed by directors of care indicating which process/policy changes had been implemented.
Results:
Recruitment and retention rates were 22% and 63%, respectively. Good fidelity with the intervention was achieved, including attendance at educational meetings. After ViDOS, 7 process indicators were being newly implemented by more than 50% of active intervention homes.
Conclusion:
Despite recruitment and retention challenges, the multifaceted intervention produced a number of policy/process changes and had good intervention fidelity. This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01398527.
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