Measuring the Delivery of Complex Interventions through Electronic Medical Records: Challenges and Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health services and implementation researchers often seek to capture the implementation process of complex interventions yet explicit guidance on how to capture this process is limited. Medical record review is a commonly used methodology, especially when used as a proxy for provider behavior, with recognized benefits and limitations. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of chart review to measure implementation and offer recommendations for future researchers using this method to capture the implementation process.

Methods

Grounded in qualitative research methods, we measured the implementation of a transitional care intervention for older adults with dementia being discharged from the hospital. We adapted the operationalization of the interventi

SUBMITTER: Prusaczyk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078114 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature