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Development of targeted, theory-informed interventions to improve bronchiolitis management

BMC Health Services Research volume 21, Article number: 769 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Despite international guidelines providing evidence-based recommendations on appropriate management of infants with bronchiolitis, wide variation in practice occurs. This results in infants receiving care of no benefit, with associated cost and is potentially harmful. Theoretical frameworks are increasingly used to develop interventions, utilising behaviour change techniques specifically chosen to target factors contributing to practice variation, with de-implementation often viewed as harder than implementing. This paper describes the stepped process using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to develop targeted, theory-informed interventions which subsequently successfully improved management of infants with bronchiolitis by de-implementing ineffective therapies. Explicit description of the process and rationale used in developing de-implementation interventions is critical to dissemination of these practices into real world clinical practice.

Methods

A stepped approach was used: (1) Identify evidence-based recommendations and practice variation as targets for change, (2) Identify factors influencing practice change (barriers and enablers) to be addressed, and (3) Identification and development of interventions (behaviour change techniques and methods of delivery) addressing influencing factors, considering evidence of effectiveness, feasibility, local relevance and acceptability. The mode of delivery for the intervention components was informed by evidence from implementation science systematic reviews, and setting specific feasibility and practicality.

Results

Five robust evidence-based management recommendations, targeting the main variation in bronchiolitis management were identified: namely, no use of chest x-ray, salbutamol, glucocorticoids, antibiotics, and adrenaline. Interventions developed to target recommendations addressed seven TDF domains (identified following qualitative clinician interviews (n = 20)) with 23 behaviour change techniques chosen to address these domains. Final interventions included: (1) Local stakeholder meetings, (2) Identification of medical and nursing clinical leads, (3) Train-the-trainer workshop for all clinical leads, (4) Local educational materials for delivery by clinical leads, (5) Provision of tools and materials targeting influencing factors, and prompting recommended behaviours, and (6) Audit and feedback.

Conclusion

A stepped approach based on theory, evidence and issues of feasibility, local relevance and acceptability, was successfully used to develop interventions to improve management of infants with bronchiolitis. The rationale and content of interventions has been explicitly described allowing others to de-implement unnecessary bronchiolitis management, thereby improving care.

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Background

Changing clinicians’ practice is challenging, in part due to the difficulty of improving quality and safety in healthcare [1] and exacerbated by inappropriate methods used to design interventions aiming to improve practice, with lack of explicit rationale for the intervention choices made [2]. Developing interventions is complex and the use of theory in the intervention development process is recommended [3], with interventions being more likely to be effective if targeting causal determinants of behaviour and behaviour change [4]. Better description and justification of interventions chosen has been recommended to enable replication and refinement of interventions [5,6,7]. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) was designed to incorporate a wide range of behaviour change theories for use in implementation research with subsequent validation [8, 9]. The TDF has demonstrated strong explanatory and predictive powers across a number of healthcare settings, including acute care settings, and is particularly useful when selecting interventions to improve practice [10, 11]. A key benefit of using the TDF is that behaviour change techniques (BCTs) are linked to each TDF domain, enabling utilisation of BCTs most likely to tackle issues identified [12], with guidance available to assist in achieving implementation objectives [13].

Bronchiolitis is the most common cause for hospitalisation of infants less than 1 year of age. Management is well defined [14] with all international evidence-based guidelines consistently recommending supportive care; and against the use of chest x-ray (CXR), salbutamol, antibiotics, glucocorticoids, or adrenaline [15,16,17,18]. Despite these consistent recommendations, and campaigns such as Choosing Wisely which aims to promote a culture of avoiding inappropriate treatments, [19] significant variation in management of infant’s with bronchiolitis remains with infants often receiving management of no benefit, and potential risk of harm [20, 21]. It is for these reasons that bronchiolitis was chosen as an appropriate condition for a de-implementation trial [22, 23].

This paper details the development of targeted, theory-informed interventions to address influencing factors identified previously [24], with the explicit aim to improve management of infants with bronchiolitis in both the emergency department (ED) and paediatric inpatient units by de-implementing the use of therapies known to be of no benefit. Subsequent to the development of these interventions they have been robustly assessed in a multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) involving 26 hospitals. Results from our trial demonstrated a 14.1% risk difference favouring the intervention group in compliance to five key bronchiolitis guideline recommendations, measurably improving the management of infants with bronchiolitis [25, 26].

Methods

We used a stepped approach to develop targeted, theory-informed bronchiolitis interventions (Fig. 1). This logical approach for developing complex interventions is based on theory, evidence and practical issues [27], and has been successful in acute care settings [28, 29]. A three-stepped method was undertaken:

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Process of developing targeted, theory-informed interventions1. BCT – Behaviour Change Technique. EPOC – Effective Practice and Organisation of Care. 1Adapted from French et al. [27] and Tavender et al. [28]

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Step 1: Who and what is needed to improve bronchiolitis management?

Step 2: Using a theoretical framework, which barriers and enablers need to be addressed?

Step 3: Which intervention components (BCTs and mode(s) of delivery) could overcome the modifiable barriers and enhance the enablers?

Step 1: who and what is needed to improve bronchiolitis management?

Identify or develop locally applicable, actionable evidence-based recommendations

In 2015 the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) [30] developed the first evidenced-based guideline for the management of bronchiolitis for use in Australia and New Zealand; the Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline [18]. The guideline aimed to provide clear guidance to clinicians treating infants presenting to EDs and paediatric inpatient units with bronchiolitis. Key evidence-based recommendations from the Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline were identified based on the strength of the recommendation and supporting evidence.

Identify the evidence-practice gap

The literature was searched to review current data on adherence with evidence-based bronchiolitis guideline recommendations from which to target improvement efforts.

Step 2: using a theoretical framework, which barriers and enablers need to be addressed?

Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 ED and inpatient paediatric unit nurses and doctors. Interview questions used the TDF domains to explore barriers and enablers to practice variation and factors that may influence the uptake of evidence-based bronchiolitis recommendations [25]. For example, ‘Are you confident in assessing an infant with bronchiolitis without doing a CXR [Knowledge]?’ ‘Do you feel that giving salbutamol to infants with bronchiolitis improves outcomes [Beliefs about consequences]?’ Purposeful sampling was used to select a range of clinicians from senior to junior, from metropolitan and regional, and from Australia and New Zealand to interview. Participants completed written informed consent and gave verbal confirmation at the start of the interview. Interview transcripts were coded using thematic content analysis in order to identify TDF domains to target in interventions.

Step 3: which intervention components (BCTs and mode(s) of delivery) could overcome the modifiable barriers and enhance the enablers?

Identify potential BCTs and modes of delivery for each evidence-based recommendation

To select BCTs most likely to effect change for each of the key evidence-based guideline recommendations, we used the BCT matrix validated by Cane et al [9]. This matrix provides guidance on selecting BCTs most likely to address each TDF domain. By matching the key TDF domains identified during our qualitative clinician interviews with BCTs most likely to influence these domains, we expected to increase the likelihood of influencing enablers and barriers to evidence-based bronchiolitis management. Where there were no BCTs assigned based on the Cane et al. matrix [12], additional BCTs identified by Michie et al. were selected [4].

An implementation development panel of eight members including clinicians (senior nurses and doctors from ED and paediatric inpatient units with direct responsibility for the management of infants with bronchiolitis) and an implementation scientist, reviewed the identified TDF domains and related BCTs, with feasible methods of implementation delivery discussed.

Identify evidence from systematic reviews of effects of interventions to inform the selection of intervention components

The Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group have published systematic reviews of interventions to improve both healthcare systems and healthcare delivery [31,32,33,34,35,36]. Additional Table 1 details the key findings from the reviews and considerations of implementing them for bronchiolitis management in our clinical setting. These reviews and findings from Grimshaw et al.’s summary of interventions [37] were discussed by the implementation development panel and research group to aid selection of appropriate interventions.

Identify feasibility, local relevance and acceptability of the intervention

The implementation development panel and research group considered factors to maximise the likelihood that the interventions were feasible, relevant and acceptable in the acute care environment to which they were to be implemented e.g. consideration of education sessions of appropriate length for an acute care environment; clear and succinct feedback reports of regular audits.

Recommendations from the Workgroup for Intervention Development and Evaluation Research (WIDER) [7], the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR checklist) [6], and Proctor et al. [5] were used to guide describing the intervention components to ensure transparency and replicability. The following criteria were used to operationalise the intervention components: (1) Characteristics of those delivering the intervention, (2) Characteristics of the recipients, (3) The setting, (4) Intervention content, (5) Mode of delivery, (6) Intensity or dose, (7) The duration (number of sessions, time), and (8) Justification (rationale for intervention).

Results

Step 1: who and what is needed to improve bronchiolitis management?

Identify or develop locally applicable, actionable evidence-based recommendations

The Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline [18] identified 33 recommendations which were broadly consistent with other international bronchiolitis guidelines [15,16,17]. From these, five evidence-based recommendations were chosen to target (Table 1). These had the highest quality evidence supporting the recommendations, and were thought to be modifiable at a clinician, departmental or hospital level. These recommendations were to not use CXR, salbutamol, glucocorticoids, antibiotics, and adrenaline in the management of infants with bronchiolitis. As these five recommendations are not independent of each other (e.g. an infant with bronchiolitis who has a CXR is more likely to receive antibiotics; salbutamol and glucocorticoids, and adrenaline and glucocorticoids, are often prescribed concurrently), we chose to develop the intervention package as a whole, as aiming to improve one or two of these recommendations at the expense of others would be difficult to justify.

Table 1 Five evidence-based recommendations targeted from Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline
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Identify the evidence-practice gap

The search of the literature identified a large study conducted by Paediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) in 38 EDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal where more than 30% of infants received non-evidence-based supportive care [21]. In Australia and New Zealand, data from over 3400 bronchiolitis presentations from seven tertiary paediatric hospital providers demonstrated that at least one of the five interventions known to have no benefit was used in 27 to 48% of bronchiolitis admissions, with salbutamol being most likely to be used [20]. These studies provided robust evidence of both an evidence-practice gap and significant variation in practice.

Step 2: using a theoretical framework, which barriers and enablers need to be addressed?

Interviews with 20 clinicians (12 doctors, 8 nurses) from four Australian and New Zealand hospitals were conducted between July and October 2016. The detailed findings from these interviews have been reported separately [25]. The key barriers for providing evidence-based management for infants with bronchiolitis were associated with seven of the 14 TDF domains. These were beliefs about consequences, knowledge, social/professional role and identity, environmental context and resources, skills, social influences, and belief about capabilities. The first five domains listed were identified as consistently important in four of our five target recommendations. Beliefs about consequences were most notably important in relation to the use of CXR. Clinician’s fear of missing a more serious diagnosis, such as pneumonia, drives the use of CXR with the unwanted consequence of increased antibiotic use associated with having a CXR. This example highlights both lack of knowledge of how to diagnose bronchiolitis, and of confidence in clinician skill of making a clinical diagnosis. The domains of social influences and beliefs about capabilities featured but less prominently. This included perceived or actual pressure from families to prescribe medications (antibiotics, salbutamol, or glucocorticoids) or undertake a CXR, or from other clinicians to trial salbutamol or undertake a CXR. The barriers and enablers identified for bronchiolitis target behaviours detailed by TDF domains are detailed in Table 2, and by target behaviours in Additional Table 2.

Table 2 Barriers and enablers identified for bronchiolitis target behaviours by Theoretical Domains Framework
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Step 3: which intervention components (BCTs and mode(s) of delivery) could overcome the modifiable barriers and enhance the enablers?

Identify potential BCTs and modes of delivery for each evidence-based recommendation

Twenty-three BCTs were selected to target barriers and enablers for the evidence-based management of bronchiolitis from seven TDF domains. The domain of social professional role and identity had no specified BCTs in the Cane et al. [12] matrix, therefore the BCT recommended previously by Michie et al. [4] was utilised. Table 3 details the mapping process for selecting BCTs as intervention components.

Table 3 Mapping of important barriers and enablers (grouped by TDF) to behaviour change techniques and intervention components developed
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As the five evidence-based recommendations being targeted are not independent, a pragmatic approach was taken where we assessed each of the domains and associated BCTs against all targeted behaviours we were aiming to influence. For example, the domain beliefs about consequences was identified for CXR, salbutamol and glucocorticoids. Using BCTs such as persuasive communication and feedback were deemed by the panel and research group as feasible and acceptable for all three targeted behaviours. Table 4 summarises the bronchiolitis intervention components developed including rationale.

Table 4 Overview of bronchiolitis interventions developed including rationale
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Identify evidence from systematic reviews of effects of interventions to inform the selection of intervention components

Findings from Cochrane EPOC reviews that focused on the effectiveness of interventions to influence the identified behaviours in the acute care setting were considered. Additional Table 1 includes the key findings from the reviews and the intervention components considered by the research team.

Identify feasibility, local relevance and acceptability of the intervention

The feasibility of delivering each of the proposed bronchiolitis interventions was discussed with the clinician panel and research group members e.g. delivering an education presentation to all staff in departments that have regular rotations of new staff; monthly audit and feedback cycles. With this in mind, we used a real-world approach using the group’s knowledge of the acute clinical demands, organisational context and constraints in order to make decisions on the feasibility and acceptability of the interventions.

Discussions resulted in the agreement on six bronchiolitis interventions: (1) Local stakeholder meetings, (2) Nomination of clinical leads (four in total - one medical and one nursing from both ED and paediatric inpatient units), (3) Train-the-trainer workshop (for all four clinical leads to attend), (4) Local educational materials targeting specific influencing factors, with delivery facilitated by clinical leads, (5) Promotional and other educational materials, and (6) Audit and feedback (Table 4).

Discussion

This paper illustrates the stepped, theory and evidence informed process undertaken to develop targeted interventions aiming to improve the management of infants with bronchiolitis. The effectiveness of the six interventions developed has been robustly assessed via a multi-centre cRCT [26]. In this trial of 26 hospitals during the 2017 bronchiolitis season (May to November), with data from 3727 infants, the interventions were shown to improve bronchiolitis management by 14.1% (95% CI 6.5 to 21.7%) in hospitals randomised to the interventions compared to control hospitals who undertook usual dissemination practices of the Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline [26]. This absolute change in care of infants with bronchiolitis is at the upper end of improvements shown in implementation cRCTs [38] and EPOC systematic reviews focusing on the effectiveness of interventions, predominantly to implement care, across healthcare settings [31,32,33,34,35,36] (Additional Table 1).

Using a systematic theory-driven approach during intervention development by targeting interventions to identified factors and determinants of practice, is more likely to increase intervention effectiveness than instinctively developing an intervention [3, 4, 39]. This stepped process has been used successfully in adult acute care settings aiming to improve the management of stroke [29] and minor traumatic brain injury [28] with interventions being assessed in cRCTs [10, 11]. While these approaches have been used to implement evidence-based practice, there are few frameworks to guide de-implementation with no ‘magic bullet’ or ideal intervention, despite the fact that de-implementation possibly presents a harder task than implementation [22]. To our knowledge this is the first time a structured theory-driven approach has been used to successfully explore barriers and enablers in the evidence-based management of bronchiolitis in acute care settings, then use BCTs to develop intervention components aiming to improve management and reduce low-value care. The Choosing Wisely De-Implementation Framework (CWDF) has recently been described, building on previous implementation science work [22]. Our stepped design successfully incorporated the first three phases described in the CWDF: Phase 0, identification of potential areas of low-value healthcare; Phase 1, identification of local priorities for implementation recommendations; and Phase 2, identification of barriers to implementing recommendations and potential interventions to overcome these. Phase 3, rigorous evaluation of the intervention, has been subsequently undertaken with robust evaluation of our interventions in a cRCT [26]. Phase 4 involves broad dissemination to all similar clinical settings. As with interventions to improve care, we theorise that the stepped process undertaken in developing our de-implementation interventions is more likely to change practice than if interventions were developed by chance or consensus opinion from experts.

A systematic review of the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies to improve inpatient bronchiolitis management demonstrated a reduction in unnecessary care in 14 trials identified [40]. While none were RCTs, and thus rated moderate quality of evidence at best, a variety of quality improvement interventions were effective for four of our low-value treatments targeted (CXR, salbutamol, antibiotics, and glucocorticoids). Unfortunately, no recommendation was given on any intervention being more effective, due to variability in study reporting. A systematic review of practice change interventions in paediatric emergency medicine highlighted lack of reporting of methodology being a barrier to future improvement efforts [41]. Other studies report interventions to reduce unnecessary care being developed by expert clinicians [42, 43]. While these interventions may have by chance addressed factors influencing the management of bronchiolitis they were not developed in a theory-informed manner. Detailed description of a theory-informed approach, clear rationale for intervention design, and explicit description of interventions that we describe are important for future replication as well as scaling up of effective interventions.

Our interventions were designed to target behaviours most likely to lead to non-evidence-based bronchiolitis management, addressing the majority of the identified TDF domains. The environmental context and resources domain posed challenges, as addressing time pressures within ED and acute care settings or changing the physical environment was beyond the scope of any pragmatic intervention. We addressed these challenges through provision of promotional and reminder materials and making the guideline available in hard and electronic copies. Interventions being feasible, practical and acceptable in the ED and paediatric inpatients units was considered important. Strategies to address these points included nursing and medical clinical leads in both ED and paediatric inpatient units, brief educational materials, and audits with succinct, timely and meaningful feedback. These real-world considerations increased the likelihood that interventions being acceptable within wider acute care environments.

Systematic reviews on intervention effectiveness in acute care settings are limited. Therefore, guidance was obtained from EPOC systematic reviews of intervention effectiveness across broad healthcare settings [31,32,33,34,35,36]. A recent systematic review of implementation strategies specific to child healthcare settings reported that single component interventions may be as, or more effective than multiple component interventions, with Computerised Decision Support (CDS) showing benefit [44]. While CDS is easily implemented within a single healthcare system, utilising a single CDS across multiple healthcare environments is problematic and not viable in our study. Educational interventions continue to be most commonly used for changing provider behaviour with positive results. Our educational intervention included important key messages, ensuring we targeted identified barriers and facilitators of the five non-evidence-based therapies.

The TDF was chosen as was the only framework available at the time that explicitly provided guidance on choosing intervention components. Subsequently, the Behaviour Change Wheel, linked to the TDF and a more simplified framework, has been developed with the central belief that capability, opportunity and motivation interact to produce behaviour [45]. Reviewing this guidance regarding the areas we were influencing, the BCTs and interventions we selected were comparable. Using this newer process would have resulted in similar interventions, suggesting that the interventions developed, and both frameworks are robust.

The major strength of our study is that a stepped theory-informed process was followed. The clinician interviews identified barriers and enablers to the evidence-based management of infants with bronchiolitis. Findings from the interviews ensured more informed understanding of the issues and challenges, from which BCTs were identified and operationalised in the interventions. Describing the stepped process ensures transparency and replicability of the method that may be applicable when developing interventions for other paediatric conditions or guideline implementation. The use of a panel and research group which included clinicians experienced in managing bronchiolitis from ED and paediatric inpatient units provided a comprehensive and complimentary skill base. This enabled decisions on the appropriateness of BCTs and intervention selection to be pragmatic and real world, while being evidence and theoretically based.

The final set of BCTs was generated by combining the five key evidence-based recommendations we were trying to influence. While this approach ensured no BCTs were left out, some BCTs were utilised across recommendations in order to preserve efficiency of the overall intervention package. Our panel and research group took into account that the recommendations were not independent, ensuring that interventions developed were feasible, practical and acceptable in the real-world of acute paediatric care.

Our interventions were targeted and contextualised to the Australian and New Zealand health care environment therefore applying them to other countries should be approached with caution. However, as variation in bronchiolitis management is an international problem, barriers and enablers we discovered and addressed may be similar to those found in other countries.

Conclusion

Targeted interventions to improve the management of infants with bronchiolitis were developed using a stepped, evidence and theory-informed process. The TDF was used to: identify barriers and enablers to the evidence-based management of infants with bronchiolitis, identify BCTs most likely to influence these barriers and enablers, and select and develop appropriate interventions and methods of delivery. The intervention package has been evaluated in a large cRCT in Australia and New Zealand with results showing significant improvement in the management of infants with bronchiolitis. Thus, the development of theory and evidence informed interventions resulted in successful change in clinicians’ practice in the high patient throughput area of acute paediatrics. Future endeavours should assess the sustainability of this change.

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Abbreviations

BCT:

Behaviour change technique

cRCT:

Cluster randomised controlled trial

CDS:

Computerised decision support

CWDF:

Choosing wisely de-implementation framework

CXR:

Chest x-ray

ED:

Emergency department

EPOC:

Effective practice and organisation of care

GRADE:

Grading of recommendations assessment, development and evaluation

HRC:

Health research council

NHMRC:

National health and medical research council

PREDICT:

Paediatric research in emergency departments international collaborative

RCT:

Randomised controlled trial

TDF:

Theoretical domains framework

TIDieR:

Template for intervention description and replication

WIDER:

Workgroup for intervention development and evaluation research

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence grant for Paediatric Emergency Medicine (GNT1058560), Australia; the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Program, Australia; and the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand (13/556), New Zealand. LH’s time was partially funded by a Clinical Research Training Fellowship from the HRC, (19/140), New Zealand. SRD’s time was partially supported by Cure Kids New Zealand. FEB’s time was partially funded by a grant from the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Melbourne, Australia and NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship.

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  1. Children’s Emergency Department, Starship Children’s Hospital, Private Bag 92024, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand

    Libby Haskell & Stuart R. Dalziel

  2. Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Libby Haskell & Stuart R. Dalziel

  3. Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Emma J. Tavender, Catherine L. Wilson, Franz E. Babl & Ed Oakley

  4. Departments of Paediatrics and Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Emma J. Tavender, Franz E. Babl & Ed Oakley

  5. Emergency Department, Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Sharon O’Brien & Meredith L. Borland

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    Sharon O’Brien

  7. Emergency Department, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Franz E. Babl & Ed Oakley

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    Elizabeth Cotterell

  10. School of Rural Medicine, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

    Elizabeth Cotterell

  11. College of Health, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

    Nicolette Sheridan

  12. Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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LH drafted the manuscript. LH, EJT and SRD conceptualised the bronchiolitis interventions. All authors (LH, EJT, CLW, SO’B, FEB, MLB, EC, NS, EO, SRD) participated in the implementation design. LH led the writing and editing of this manuscript. All authors (LH, EJT, CLW, SO’B, FEB, MLB, EC, NS, EO, SRD) revised the manuscript for important intellectual content and gave final approval of the version to be published.

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Additional file 1: Table 1

Evidence from Cochrane EPOC reviews to inform bronchiolitis intervention components (adapted from Tavender et al 20151). Table 2 Barriers and enablers identified for bronchiolitis target behaviours by Theoretical Domains Framework.

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Haskell, L., Tavender, E.J., Wilson, C.L. et al. Development of targeted, theory-informed interventions to improve bronchiolitis management. BMC Health Serv Res 21, 769 (2021). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12913-021-06724-6

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