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Table 3 Overview of study outcomes, time points of data collection and data sources (t1 baseline before randomisation, t1 6 months after randomisation, t2 12 months after randomisation)

From: Effects of strategies to improve general practitioner-nurse collaboration and communication in regard to hospital admissions of nursing home residents (interprof ACT): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Outcomes

Time

Data source

t0

t1

t2

Nursing home residents

Primary outcomes

  Cumulative incidence hospitalisation

x

x

x

Resident file

Secondary outcomes

  Hospitalisations

x

x

x

Resident file

  Hospital days

x

x

x

Resident file

  Inappropriate medication

x

x

x

Resident file

  Adverse events

x

x

x

Resident file

  Mortality

x

x

x

Resident file

  Medical care

x

x

x

Resident file

  FIMA

x

x

x

Resident file

  Quality of Life (QoL-AD-NH, EQ-5D-5L)

x

 

x

Self-administered questionnaire (standardised interview with residents) or proxy assessment by nurses

Intermediate outcome (process evaluation)

 Satisfaction with medical care

x

 

x

Self-administered questionnaire

Nurses in nursing homes (intermediate outcome for process evaluation)

 Quality of interprofessional collaboration, including determinants and context factors potentially influencing the implementation and effects of interprof ACT (quantitative data)

x

 

x

Self-administered questionnaire

 Process of interprofessional collaboration, including determinants and context factors potentially influencing the implementation and effects of interprof ACT (qualitative data)

x

x

x

Non-participatory observations of kick-off meetings and interprofessional collaboration, semi-structured interviews

Nursing home managers (intermediate outcome for process evaluation)

 Quality interprofessional collaboration, including determinants and context factors potentially influencing the implementation and effects of interprof ACT (quantitative data)

x

 

x

Self-administered questionnaire

General practitioners (intermediate outcome for process evaluation)

 Quality of interprofessional collaboration, including determinants and context factors potentially influencing the implementation and effects of interprof ACT (quantitative data)

x

 

x

Self-administered questionnaire

 Process of interprofessional collaboration, determinants and context factors potentially influencing the implementation and effects of interprof ACT

x

x

x

Non-participatory observations of kick-off meetings and interprofessional collaboration, semi-structured interviews