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Table 2 External facilitation tasks during on-site visits

From: Key components of external facilitation in an acute stroke quality improvement collaborative in the Veterans Health Administration

 

% of time reportedly spent on facilitation tasks (on-site visits) (n?=?5)

Facilitation tasks

Stroke-QUERI facilitators

Industrial engineer (IE) facilitators

 

(Implementation researchers)

(VERC VA-CASE)

 

022001

022003

022005

022002

022004

a. Monitoring the status of the teams’ progress

~5%

~25%

40%–50%

50%

60%

b. Providing information to the teams

25%

~10%

30%

25%

15%–20%

c. Providing support (being a sound board, providing guidance)

10%

~75%

75%–80%

25%

50%

d. Identifying activities to be done

25%

25%

50%–60%

50%

30%–35%

e. Providing referrals (connecting people to people, connecting people to information

15%

5%

25%

25%

20%

f. Identifying resources

5%–10%

~5%

30%

25%

0%

  1. Note: each facilitator was asked to estimate time from 0%–100% for each task; therefore, their total time may be more or less than 100%.