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Table 2 Planned delivery of the intervention

From: Implementing evidence-based recommended practices for the management of patients with mild traumatic brain injuries in Australian emergency care departments: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

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 20 minute sessions) in relation to the key recommendations presented by the clinical opinion leaders to staff in their emergency department over a 3 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).