Table 1 Overview of project per guidelines by Proctor et al. [28]
Action | Description |
|---|---|
Name it | Establishment of QICs to improve care for people with dementia and their carers |
Define it | QICs enable rapid, sustainable improvements in care by bringing together health services to learn together, share ideas, and benchmark outcomes |
Specify it | |
a) The actor | The project team establishes and supports the QICs; Implementation clinicians form the QICs and conduct quality improvement (using PDSA cycles) |
b) The action | Completion of an online training course, development of a site-specific implementation plan, and enactment of this plan (using PDSA cycles) |
c) Action target | “Implementation clinicians”: health professionals across Australia who have some leadership responsibilities yet are still closely connected to the delivery of services and can introduce changes to practice |
d) Temporality | The clinicians will participate in online training, develop a sites-specific implementation plan, and then enact the plan. |
e) Dose | Seven education modules of 2 hours each, to be completed over 8 weeks; 11 virtual QIC meetings |
f) Implementation outcome affected | Primary outcome: adherence to recommendation as described in the criteria in Table 3. |
g) Justification | The intervention was designed to match with factors known to enable evidence-based care for people with dementia and their carers and to be relatively ‘light touch’ and promote rapid change |