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Table 3 Design Seeds Relationship to Critical Activity Categories and Implementation Context

From: Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions to reduce quality gaps in monitoring high-risk patients

Critical activity category

Design seed

Relevant Context Domains [39]

Safety Culture, Teamwork, Leadership

Structural Organizational Characteristics

External Factors

Implementation/Management Tools

Communicate/coordinate

Ability to control data access

X

X

X

X

Scheduling functionality

X

X

 

X

Assign roles and responsibilities

X

X

 

X

Triggered notifications

X

X

X

X

Patient activity

Patient support

X

X

X

X

Complete patient information

X

X

 

X

Review or enter data

Keeps list up-to-date

X

X

 

X

Standardized data entry

  

X

X

Complete data capture

 

X

X

X

Performance data

X

X

X

X

Track progress

Population registry functionality for high-risk patients

X

  

X

Figure out what patients are “on the list”

X

X

X

X

Customize the patient list

X

X

 

X

  1. Legend: Design seeds correspond to the four critical activities performed by clinics. To maximize effectiveness in diverse and dynamic settings, designed interventions are considered within the context of a larger work system, split into four major domains by Taylor et al. Hypothesized relationships between context features (e.g., leadership at unit level, local tailoring of intervention) within the four context domains and each design seed are shown in Additional file 3