Implementation evaluation and refinement of an intervention to improve blunt chest injury management-A mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To investigate uptake of a Chest Injury Protocol (ChIP), examine factors influencing its implementation and identify interventions for promoting its use.

Background

Failure to treat blunt chest injuries in a timely manner with sufficient analgesia, physiotherapy and respiratory support, can lead to complications such as pneumonia and respiratory failure and/or death.

Design

This is a mixed-methods implementation evaluation study.

Methods

Two methods were used: (i) identification and review of the characteristics of all patients eligible for the ChIP protocol, and (ii) survey of hospital staff opinions mapped to the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation. The characteristics and treatment r

SUBMITTER: Curtis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686633 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature