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. 2009 Aug 11;4:52. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-4-52

Table 3.

Provider (Staff) Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Healthcare Aides Inclusion Criteria:
1. Identify a unit within a facility where they have worked for at least three months and are working now
2. Work a minimum of six shifts per month on this unit
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Healthcare Aide Student
Nurses Inclusion Criteria:
(Registered Nurses [RNs] and Licensed Practical Nurses [LPNs]) 1. Identify a unit within a facility where they have worked for at least three months and are now working
2. Work a minimum of six shifts per month on this unit
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Licensed Practical Nurse/Registered Nurse Student
2. Nursing instructors whose primary role is supervising students

Allied Healthcare Providers Inclusion Criteria:
1. Identify a facility in which they provide at least one third (i. e., at least 6 days a month) of their long-term care services
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Allied Healthcare Student
2. Allied instructors whose primary role is supervising students

Physicians Inclusion Criteria:
1. Physicians who see ten or more residents in a facility
2. The Medical Director of the facility
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Physicians not currently seeing residents
2. Residents or medical students
3. Academic staff

Practice Specialists Inclusion Criteria:
1. Identify a facility in which they provide at least one third (i. e., at least six days a month) of their long-term care services
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Academic staff
2. Clinical instructors whose primary role is supervising students

Care Managers Inclusion Criteria:
1. Identify one facility in which they work more than 50% of the time.
2. Facility administrators when there is no care manager who is responsible for resident care (e. g. only one unit in the facility)
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Managers not responsible for resident care (e. g., dietary managers, materials management managers)