Table 3 Frequency of discrete implementation strategies and clustered strategies identified in the units’ activity logs (n = 782). The number denoted to each strategy in the table are from the ERIC strategy list numbers and list numbers from the developed coding manual. ERIC clusters are written in italics in the table creating headings for the strategies underneath that belong to the cluster
Discrete strategies | f | % |
|---|---|---|
Use evaluative and iterative strategies | 36 | 4,6 |
 4. Assess for readiness | 1 | 0,1 |
 5. Audit and provide feedback | 1 | 0,1 |
 14. Conduct cyclical small tests of change | 2 | 0,3 |
 23. Develop a formal implementation blueprint | 8 | 1,0 |
 46. Obtain and use patients’ feedback | 1 | 0,1 |
 56. Purposefully re-examine the implementation | 23 | 2,9 |
Provide interactive assistance | 2 | 0,3 |
 53. Provide clinical supervision | 2 | 0,3 |
Adapt and tailor to context | 12 | 1,5 |
 51. Promote adaptability | 11 | 1,4 |
 63. Tailor strategies | 1 | 0,1 |
Develop stakeholder interrelationships | 297 | 38,0 |
 6. Build a coalition | 5 | 0,6 |
 7. Capture and share local knowledge | 27 | 3,5 |
 17. Conduct local consensus discussions | 3 | 0,4 |
 24. Develop academic partnerships | 11 | 1,4 |
 35. Identify and prepare champions | 13 | 1,7 |
 40. Involve executive boards | 2 | 0,3 |
 48. Organize clinician implementation team meetings | 99 | 12,7 |
 52. Promote network weaving | 110 | 14,1 |
 57. Recruit, designate, and train for leadership | 19 | 2,4 |
 64. Use advisory boards and workgroups | 2 | 0,3 |
 65. Use an implementation advisor | 6 | 0,8 |
Train and educate stakeholders | 315 | 40,3 |
 15. Conduct educational meetings | 70 | 9,0 |
 16. Conduct educational outreach visits | 6 | 0,8 |
 19. Conduct ongoing training | 15 | 1,9 |
 20. Create a learning collaborative | 1 | 0,1 |
 29. Develop educational materials | 63 | 8,1 |
 31. Distribute educational materials | 54 | 6,9 |
 43. Make training dynamic | 53 | 6,8 |
 74. Provide stakeholders the possibility to attend educational meetingsb | 51 | 6,5 |
 77. Communicatea | 2 | 0,3 |
Support clinicians | 76 | 9,7 |
 21. Create new clinical teams | 1 | 0,1 |
 58. Remind clinicians | 17 | 2,2 |
 59. Revise professional roles | 8 | 1,0 |
 75. Provide stakeholders with resourcesb | 49 | 6,3 |
 76. Recruit clinicians with competence in the innovationb | 1 | 0,1 |
Engage consumers | 31 | 4,0 |
 41. Involve patients | 25 | 3,2 |
 50. Prepare patients to be active participants | 3 | 0,4 |
 69. Use mass media | 3 | 0,4 |
Utilize financial strategies | 2 | 0,3 |
 1. Access new funding | 2 | 0,3 |
Change infrastructure | 9 | 1,2 |
 11. Change physical structure and equipment | 3 | 0,4 |
 12. Change record system | 4 | 0,5 |
 13. Change service sites | 2 | 0,3 |