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. 2021 Feb 9;10(2):e25284. doi: 10.2196/25284

Table 2.

Measures and administration.

Method and measures/and variables Phases Administration Dimension
Extraction from hospital database

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

Patient details (age, BMI, ASAb) Intervention+baseline Collected during direct observation in the OR (or retrospectively collected from patient’s health record) System

Flow disruptions Intervention+baseline Direct observation of number, type, and rate per observation (n~27,200) Process

Surgical phase duration Intervention+baseline Collected during direct observation in the OR Process

Oxford NOTECHS 2 Intervention+baseline Direct observation for each phase of surgery for surgeon, OR staff, and anesthesia subteams Process

Intervention adherence metric Intervention Direct observation once during each surgical observation (for intervention phases (3-6); n=520) Process
Surveys

SURG-TLX Intervention+baseline Completed once per observed surgery by surgeon, anesthesiologist, circulating nurse, and scrub tech (n~2270) Individual

Safety attitudes questionnaire Intervention+baseline Administered on web via REDCapc once per phase for all RASd practitioners (n~425) System

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

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.