Table 2.

Intervention and implementation components: context of IPAF application

Intervention components (target behaviors)

1) Check risk factor

2) Advise patient on risk factor relation to specialty condition

3) Connect patient to risk reduction resources

Implementation components (strategies)

1) Engage staff in planning implementation

2) Educate staff about protocols and rationale

3) Remind staff of protocol steps using electronic health record alerts

4) Feedback based on audits of staff’s target behaviors, with IPAF approach: interactive, participatory discussions about barriers, solutions, goals, and in which staff chose their own action plans to improve their behaviors to align with intervention goals