Table 2.

Quantitative data fields used to inform the process evaluation.

Variable*	Process Evaluation Theme(s)	Description
Number of current medicines (prescription and non- prescription)	Interventional Model	These variables were used to provide information on patient demographics to allow evaluation of the selection and recruitment process and to establish if the recruited patients reflected the project target population.
Number of current comorbidities	Interventional Model
Age	Interventional Model
Number of medication cessation recommendations	Interventional Model	These variables informed the researchers of the activities conducted during the patient consultation and provided insight into the impact of the intervention.
Number of addition of new medication recommendations	Interventional Model
Number of recommendations for dose reduction	Interventional Model
Number of suspected ADR identified	Interventional Model
Number of suspected drug interactions detected	Interventional Model
Number of recommendations for dose increase	Interventional Model
Number of recommendations actioned by GP	Circumstances affecting implementation Situational Context	This variable provided insight into the effectiveness of the intervention and the level of collaboration between different practitioners. It was also used to demonstrate the differences in acceptance of the intervention at different sites to inform the situational context.
Number of recommendations by pharmacist	Circumstances affecting implementation Situational Context	This variable provided information on the ability of the pharmacist to implement the intervention. Differences in this variable were used to demonstrate the differences between pharmacist practitioners in conducting the intervention.
Practice ID	Situational Context	This variable allowed the researchers to consider the data from different practice sites to inform the situational context.
Pharmacist ID	Situational Context	This variable allowed the researchers to identify different pharmacist practitioners to inform the situational context.

* This table describes selected variables that were used to inform the process evaluation and is not a comprehensive list of the variables collected.