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. 2022 Sep 28;5(9):e2233667. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33667

Table 1. Definition of RE-AIM Domains Along the Study Intervention.

RE-AIM domain Definition in In-HospiTOOL implementation evaluation
Reach
  • Proportion of hospitals that agreed to participate as an intervention hospital during the study

  • 7 of 10 invited hospitals agreed to participate

  • Designation of ≥1 physician, 1 nurse, and 1 social worker as local team leaders in each hospital

  • Team leaders were instructed in procedural details of the study, received training on how to perform structured interprofessional team-based bedside rounding using the tool, and then disseminated this information among their colleagues

  • Training of team leaders was accomplished through onsite visits or phone conferences at least every month

  • To guarantee a standardized education of the local staff, we provided a teaching video to all study sites, where the appropriate usage of the tool meticulously described (BZP,24 2018)

Effectiveness
  • Primary and secondary (balancing) outcomes

  • Primary (hospital length of stay)

  • Secondary (30-day all-cause hospital readmission, all-cause in-hospital mortality, facility discharge)

Adoption
  • Extent to which caregivers actually adopted the intervention in the study (showed compliance with the intervention)

  • The implementation and progress of using the tool (frequency of tool use) were closely monitored by local team leaders

Implementation
  • Extent to which the intervention is implemented as intended, including implementation barriers and facilitators

  • All team leaders continuously coached medical ward staff during the intervention period and provided real-time feedback to them to standardize the process and diminish individual variability during ward rounds

  • In addition to the assessment of frequency in tool use, a close monitoring by team leaders allowed intervention to improve alignment with the key principles and study goals, if appropriate

  • The local social work leader rounded with the care team to detect postacute care demands early

Maintenance
  • Extent to which the intervention is intended to be sustained over time and become institutionalized

  • Meetings with stakeholder and providing support in programmatic incorporation of the tool along EMR

Abbreviations: In-HospiTOOL, Integrative Hospital Treatment in Older Patients to Benchmark and Improve Outcome and Length of Stay; EMR, electronic medical records; RE-AIM, Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance.