Table 2.
Summary of implementation outcome measures
| Outcome | Data collected |
|---|---|
| Effectiveness | Length of stay: (calendar nights from electronic medical records) |
| Primary outcome: acute care ward length of stay | |
| Rehabilitation ward length of stay | |
| Total hospital length of stay | |
| Performance tests: | |
| * 30-s chair-stand test at Day 7 post-operatively | |
| * Modified Iowa Level of Assistance at Day 7 post-operatively | |
| Safety | Adverse events: |
| * Incident reports from existing standardised reporting mechanisms (Incident Information Management System) in NSW Health | |
| * Records of clinical emergency response system calls from medical records | |
| * Complication data from medical records | |
| * Intensive care admission data from medical records | |
| Discharge destinations: | |
| * Discharge destination from the acute care ward, rehabilitation ward (if relevant) and supports needed on discharge services, sourced from medical records | |
| Acceptability | * Qualitative interview, focus group and survey data from patients, carers, and healthcare staff involved in the implementation, and/or providing orthogeriatric care |
| Open and closed question survey data will be reported here, with qualitative interview and focus group data reported separately | |
| Feasibility and uptake | * Physiotherapy occasions of service from existing standardised reporting mechanisms in NSW Health to measure adherence to intervention |
| (This was compared to predicted occasions of service as per individual site implementation plans.) | |
| * Uptake—percentage of eligible patients who were provided the higher daily frequency intervention | |
| * Explanatory audit data from medical records regarding reasons for non-adherence to intervention (e.g. reasons for declining participation in session, early cessation of treatment) | |
| Implementation cost (health service perspective) | * Hospital costs using existing data generated by local hospital clinical coding department based on ICD-10 diagnostic coding |
| * Staffing costs/time for implementing non-physiotherapy workforce including supervision, upskilling, training incorporating existing requirements |