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. 2019 Mar;11(Suppl 4):S487–S499. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.01.29

Table 3. Intervention mapping.

CFIR construct Facilitator/barrier Manifestation Strategy to mitigate barrier leverage facilitator Desired outcome
Outer setting domain—patients’ needs and resources construct SURPAS provides individualized, patient-centered care to patients SURPAS provides patients with information, increased engagement with providers, and enhances patients’ surgical experience Conduct local meetings with key stakeholders (i.e., patients) to build collaboration and awareness of SURPAS Increased patient satisfaction and improved clinical outcomes
Intervention characteristic domain—evidence strength and quality construct Empirical evidence that SURPAS was grounded in the ACS NSQIP database and the statistical methodologies utilized No one questioned the empirical evidence Ongoing educational meetings with stakeholders, individual meeting with clinical champions and implementation facilitators Providers and patient confident with data provided by SURPAS
Complexity construct SURPAS’ ease of use Simplicity of understanding SURPAS’ message Develop an implementation manual to ensure appropriate implementation and use of tool Successful implementation of SURPAS
Design quality and packaging construct SURPAS’ data display and patient handouts Provided a concise mechanism to estimate and document the risk of surgery, supportive to populate clinical notes, and useful for sharing the anticipated surgical risk with patients Create a learning collaborative Increased patient’s knowledge of risk assessment of surgical complications
Adaptability construct Limited CPT codes in SURPAS and lack of specific comorbidities Provider frustration that specific surgical CPT codes were not available Work with technical experts to continually update SURPAS and sharing surrogate codes between providers and promote adaptability Provider utilize new specific CPT code or a similar (surrogate) one
Inner setting domain—implementation climate construct Highly supported by administrators and surgical care key stakeholders and providers Established integration of SURPAS in the EHR Identification and preparation of local clinical champions Fully implemented in all surgical clinics
Implementation climate construct Tension between low-risk patients’ preference of SURPAS and providers’ concern about additional clinic time required to discuss risks Providers only use SURPAS with high-risk patients Utilization of patient and family feedback Providers use SURPAS with all patients
Compatibility sub-construct Contextual and technological variations affecting implementation Clinic room environment does not provide computers for assessment of SURPAS Utilization of facilitation and technical experts—internal and external Experts work with clinic to provide access to computers or change of process to perform SURPAS before entering clinic room
Characteristics of individuals domain—knowledge and beliefs about the intervention construct Provider believes his/her complication rates better than those reported by SURPAS Provider chooses not to use SURPAS Utilization of outcomes rates audit and feedback Provider sees that their complication rates are similar to SURPAS
Process domain—planning construct Planning ahead with identified teams responsible for the implementation of the tool and technical support Providers unable to access SURPAS from the local computer Utilization of facilitation and technical experts - internal and external Fully implemented in all surgical clinics
Engaging construct Factors to encourage adoption of SURPAS Provider chooses not to use SURPAS Conduct ongoing education, training, evaluation, and consultation Integrated into all pre-surgical patient-provider interactions

SURPAS, SUrgical Risk Preoperative Assessment System; ACS, American College of Surgeons; NSQIP, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; CPT, Current Procedural Terminology.