Intervention and control group | |
1. | An electronic/printed copy of Initial Management of Closed Head Injury in Adults guideline [14]. |
2. | Data collection reminder sticker/flag in system and education around the importance of documenting information for mild traumatic brain injury patients to optimise data collection. |
Intervention group only | |
3. | One hour face-to-face multidisciplinary stakeholder meeting in each participating hospital with key stakeholders (both clinical and change management) and senior Neurotrauma Evidence Translation (NET) clinicians and researcher to create buy-in at ‘organisational’ level for the changes by discussing the key recommendations and underlying evidence; discussing intervention components and how to overcome anticipated barriers in their implementation etc. |
4. | Identification of multidisciplinary local opinion leader team (medical and nursing) via key-informant method [58] (emergency department Directors will be provided with a description of the types and characteristics of people suited to the role). |
5. | One day train-the-trainer interactive workshop, led by content experts and senior NET clinicians, attended by the nursing and medical opinion leaders, consisting of information provision and skills training - both in relation to the key-recommendations as well as in relation to their role in the study. |
6. | Delivery of materials for local workshops (brief 20Â minute sessions) in relation to the key recommendations presented by the clinical opinion leaders to staff in their emergency department over a 3Â month period of time. |
7. | Provision of relevant tools and materials (for example, screening tools [14] and information booklets [40] translated into five languages that are commonly spoken in Australia). |