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. 2016 Jun 6;32(5):516–523. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3742-y

Table 3.

Outcomes Regarding Professionals’ Reported Level of Implementation on the AIEC (n = 30)

T0 (Baseline) T1 (Follow-up) Change Improvement T1 – T0
AIEC Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Z* p-value ES
Total score 46.5 (15.6) 57.4 (9.6) 10.8 (12.9) −4.97 <0.001 0.71
Organization 51.3 (16.4) 57.9 (9.7) 6.6 (14.7) −2.71 0.007 0.39
Community 46.6 (17.7) 55.6 (14.2) 8.9 (19.5) −2.95 0.003 0.42
Self-management 42.5 (17.7) 55.4 (13.4) 12.9 (17.0) −4.48 <0.001 0.64
Decision 40.8 (17.7) 48.1 (13.0) 7.2 (17.5) −2.86 0.004 0.41
Delivery 51.9 (17.7) 63.1 (10.9) 11.2 (17.3) −4.17 <0.001 0.60
Information systems 44.5 (16.4) 57.1 (12.9) 12.6 (17.5) −4.41 <0.001 0.63
Integration 44.5 (21.0) 59.8 (13.8) 15.3 (20.4) −4.34 <0.001 0.62

AIEC = Assessment of Integrated Elderly Care; scores: 0–24, limited support for integrated elderly care; 25–49, basic support for integrated elderly care; 50–74, reasonably good support for integrated elderly care; ≥75, fully developed integrated elderly care

*Wilcoxon signed-rank test

ES = effect size r; thresholds: < 0.1 trivial, ≥ 0.1–0.3 small, ≥ 0.3–0.5 medium, ≥ 0.5 large