Understanding the influences on successful quality improvement in emergency general surgery: learning from the RCS Chole-QuIC project

Table 1 Description of key influences on success and related NPT construct

Description of key influences	Overall area of work	Related NPT construct
Cognitive, relational and behavioural work
1. Achieving clarity of purpose amongst site leads and all key stakeholders	Sense-making	Coherence
2. Capacity (time and resources) to lead and effective team working/project support	Relational	Cognitive participation
3. Turing ideas into action	Making change happen	Collective action
4. Learning from own and others’ experience	Learning from change	Reflexive monitoring
Clinical process
5. Creating additional capacity to do emergency cholecystectomies	Surgical/theatre capacity	N/A
6. Coordinating/managing the patient pathway	Patient pathway/flow	N/A