Table 2.
Measures and administration.
| Method and measures/and variables | Phases | Administration | Dimension | ||||
| Extraction from hospital database | |||||||
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Covariates including perioperative duration, blood loss, conversion to open returns to the ORa | Intervention+baseline | Data collected for all patients in each intervention phase via hospital databases (n=680) | System | |||
| Direct observation | |||||||
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Patient details (age, BMI, ASAb) | Intervention+baseline | Collected during direct observation in the OR (or retrospectively collected from patient’s health record) | System | |||
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Flow disruptions | Intervention+baseline | Direct observation of number, type, and rate per observation (n~27,200) | Process | |||
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Surgical phase duration | Intervention+baseline | Collected during direct observation in the OR | Process | |||
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Oxford NOTECHS 2 | Intervention+baseline | Direct observation for each phase of surgery for surgeon, OR staff, and anesthesia subteams | Process | |||
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Intervention adherence metric | Intervention | Direct observation once during each surgical observation (for intervention phases (3-6); n=520) | Process | |||
| Surveys | |||||||
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SURG-TLX | Intervention+baseline | Completed once per observed surgery by surgeon, anesthesiologist, circulating nurse, and scrub tech (n~2270) | Individual | |||
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Safety attitudes questionnaire | Intervention+baseline | Administered on web via REDCapc once per phase for all RASd practitioners (n~425) | System | |||
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Concurrent acceptability | Intervention | Administration on web via REDCap [38] twice per intervention phase (phases 3-6) for all RAS staff and clinicians (n~950) | Individual | |||
| Interviews | |||||||
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Intervention implementation facilitators and barriers | Intervention | Observations and in-person interviews conducted with a diverse sample of OR staff following the implementation of all interventions (n=8-10 individuals per site) | System | |||
aOR: operating room.
bASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists.
cREDcap: Research Electronic Data Capture.
dRAS: robotic-assisted surgery.