Data Collection Plan Research Articles

Modeling the Use of Mixed Methods–Grounded Theory: Developing Scales for a New Measurement Model

Mixed methods–grounded theory (MM–GT) has emerged as a promising methodology that intersects the value of mixed methods with rigorous qualitative design. However, recent reviews have found that MM–GT empirical studies tend to lack procedural details. The purpose of this article is to apply the “best practices” for conducting MM–GT in a study designed to develop and then test a theoretical model for how undergraduate engineering students develop interest in the engineering PhD. This study contributes to the field of mixed methods research by (a) illustrating best practices for MM–GT, (b) providing an MM–GT scale development example, (c) demonstrating how an MM-GT scale could potentially bypass exploratory factor analysis and proceed directly to confirmatory factor analysis for testing psychometric properties, and showing how a joint display for data collection planning can be used to strengthen integration in an instrument development study.

Shared decision making in IBD: A novel approach to trial consent and timing

BackgroundShared decision making (SDM) between families and physicians may facilitate informed, timely decisions to proceed with biologic therapy in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Our team previously developed an SDM tool to aid communication between physicians and families when considering biologic therapy for children with IBD. ObjectiveWe are conducting a prospective, pre-post pilot trial of a new SDM tool. The primary aim of the study is to assess feasibility of both the intervention and trial procedures for a future large-scale trial. MethodsWe are enrolling physicians with experience prescribing biologic therapy in the past year and families of children with IBD. Families in the intervention arm receive a 3-step intervention including a letter sent before trial consent or clinic appointment, an in-clinic decision tool and a follow-up phone call. Our primary trial outcome is a measure of feasibility, with measures of clinical and decision outcomes secondary. We seek to enroll 27 families in each of 2 arms (usual-care and intervention) and plan data collection at the time of the initial visit or hospital stay, and at 1 week, 3 months, and 6 months after the initial visit. ConclusionThis study protocol is designed to demonstrate that integrating novel consent procedures, including timing and multiple versions of written consent, may increase trial feasibility while maintaining scientific rigor and full protection of study participants.

Does a history of involuntary selection generate attentional biases?

Voluntarily allocating attention to task-relevant features engenders attentional biases for frequently attended stimuli, even when they become irrelevant (ie., selection history). Little is known, however, to what extent effortful, voluntary attention is a necessary component in the formation of such selection biases. Do task-irrelevant, abrupt onsets, which reflexively draw attention to a particular location, engender attentional selection biases for involuntarily attended locations, biases that persist in the absence of explicit exogenous cues? Using a preregistered data collection and analysis plan (accepted, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, final manuscript in preparation), we manipulated spatial attention during an orientation discrimination task: two Gabor patches (randomly and independently rotated clockwise or counterclockwise of vertical) were simultaneously presented (8° left/right of fixation); a postcue indicated which was the target. To generate different selection histories for left/right locations, we delivered precues more often to one location (2:1 ratio) during the first half of the study (most-cued side counterbalanced across observers, equal numbers valid and invalid trials at each location). In the second half, no precues were presented, and observers continued the orientation discrimination task. If exogenous attentional selection generates persistent biases, performance should be better on the previously most-cued side, relative to least-cued side. As expected, abrupt onsets reflexively modulated visual processing in the first half: task accuracy increased, and RTs decreased, when the precue appeared near the forthcoming target (valid trials), relative to the distractor (invalid trials). When precues were removed in the second half, however, we found no evidence that exogenous selection history modulated task performance: task accuracy and RTs at previously most/least cued sides were statistically indistinguishable; precue-free follow-up sessions (one day and one week later) also showed indistinguishable performance at left/right locations. Thus, unlike voluntarily directed attention, reflexively allocating attention may not be sufficient to engender historically-contingent selection biases.

Physical Orienteering Problem for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data Collection Planning in Environments With Obstacles

This letter concerns a variant of the orienteering problem (OP) that arises from multi-goal data collection scenarios where a robot with a limited travel budget is requested to visit given target locations in an environment with obstacles. We call the introduced OP variant the physical OP (POP). The POP sets out to determine a feasible, collision-free, path that maximizes collected reward from a subset of the target locations and does not exceed the given travel budget. The problem combines motion planning and combinatorial optimization to visit multiple target locations. The proposed solution to the POP is based on the variable neighborhood search (VNS) method combined with the asymptotically optimal sampling-based probabilistic roadmap (PRM*) method. The VNS-PRM* uses initial low-dense roadmap that is continuously expanded during the VNS-based POP optimization to shorten paths of the promising solutions and, thus, allows maximizing the sum of the collected rewards. The computational results support the feasibility of the proposed approach by a fast determination of high-quality solutions. Moreover, an experimental verification demonstrates the applicability of the proposed VNS-PRM* approach for data collection planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle in an urban-like environment with obstacles.

End-of-Life Care: Redesigning Access Through Leveraging the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Recommendations.

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine published the vision for how to transform healthcare to achieve a more seamless patient-centered, high-quality system of care. Among the recommendations were four specifically focused on leveraging nursing which is the largest group of healthcare workers: (1) Ensure that nurses can practice to the full extent of their education and training, (2) Improve nursing education, (3) Provide opportunities for nurses to assume leadership positions and to serve as full partners in healthcare redesign and improvement efforts, and (4) Improve data collection for workforce planning and policy making. At the Care New England Health Care System's Visiting Nurse Association, located in the state of Rhode Island, we redesigned access to end-of-life care by leveraging these recommendations. An experienced palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) leads the program development to improve care delivered by home healthcare nurses and NP specialists. This program was designed to allow patients to remain in their preferred setting of care-their home-until the end of their life. In the 5 years of this program's existence, it has achieved a yearly impact on community-based palliative care and hospice services. The number of documented advance directives increased by 75%, referrals to palliative care and hospice increased by 300% and the length of time on hospice doubled. In addition, NP home visits became an accepted referral source and improvements in both the quality and satisfaction scores for the home healthcare agency were realized.

Best Practices for Avoiding Paper Backup When Implementing Electronic Approaches to Patient-Reported Outcome Data Collection in Clinical Trials

Electronic data capture is fast becoming the preferred method of collecting patient-reported outcome (PRO) data in clinical trials. Data collection can be site-based (clinical study site), and typically collected on a tablet, or field-based (subject's typical environment such as home, school, or workplace), and most often accomplished with handheld devices, such as a smartphone. While site and study subject compliance with protocol-specific data collection procedures using these devices is critical to trial success, so is the robustness of the device hardware and the software these devices use to capture the trial data. Technology failures and/or site or subject resistance to the electronic data capture protocol may lead a subject to record data on paper, which can result in undesirable data challenges. As such, both site and subject compliance issues and technology-related factors must be anticipated to adhere to the ePRO data collection plan. The objective of this paper is to provide the technology industry's best practice recommendations for optimizing ePRO data collection in clinical trials by proposing the inclusion of a planned approach to data collection that includes viable electronic backup strategies so that defaulting to a paper-based backup becomes unnecessary.

ADolescents gEnder surVey, rEsponsible coupLes evaluatiOn, and capacity building Project in India (DEVELOP): a study protocol.

Gender-based violence against women is a serious concern in India. This affects the health and wellbeing of victims and their dependents. Published evidence has documented a variety of reasons for such violence in Indian societies, paving a pathway to design, implement, and evaluate intervention models to address this issue. DEVELOP is a research study designed by UK and Indian research teams to plan future projects to address gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls in India. This study protocol provides detailed information on the objectives, research methods, data collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination plans of the DEVELOP. The first component is a survey of adolescent boys and girls from rural areas of Maharashtra state of India to understand their gender equality related knowledge and beliefs. The insight gathered will be used to design interventions targeted at adolescent populations through future research and development programmes. Secondly, an evaluation of the 'Responsible Couples' project will be conducted to assess its success and challenges, and to design suitable programme activities and models. The 'Responsible Couples' project is implemented in 40 villages of Maharashtra state to improve relationships in married couples, prevent violence against women, intervene during violence, and to provide support services for women and their family members. Research findings will be disseminated though public engagement events in India, international conferences, and peer reviewed publications. This will impact on the policy and work models of Indian partners to plan future project investments. Research findings will be also useful for local government authorities and non-government agencies striving to advance gender equality.

Facilitators, best practices and barriers to integrating family planning data in Uganda\u2019s health management information system

BackgroundHealth management information systems (HMIS) are instrumental in addressing health delivery problems and strengthening health sectors by generating credible evidence about the health status of clients. There is paucity of studies which have explored possibilities for integrating family planning data from the public and private health sectors in Uganda’s national HMIS. This study sought to investigate the facilitators, best practices and barriers of integrating family planning data into the district and national HMIS in Uganda.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study in Kampala, Jinja, and Hoima Districts of Uganda, based on 16 key informant interviews and a multi-stakeholder dialogue workshop with 11 participants. Deductive and inductive thematic methods were used to analyze the data.ResultsThe technical facilitators of integrating family planning data from public and private facilities in the national and district HMIS were user-friendly software; web-based and integrated reporting; and availability of resources, including computers. Organizational facilitators included prioritizing family planning data; training staff; supportive supervision; and quarterly performance review meetings. Key behavioral facilitators were motivation and competence of staff. Collaborative networks with implementing partners were also found to be essential for improving performance and sustainability.Significant technical barriers included limited supply of computers in lower level health facilities, complex forms, double and therefore tedious entry of data, and web-reporting challenges. Organizational barriers included limited human resources; high levels of staff attrition in private facilities; inadequate training in data collection and use; poor culture of information use; and frequent stock outs of paper-based forms. Behavioral barriers were low use of family planning data for planning purposes by district and health facility staff.ConclusionFamily planning data collection and reporting are integrated in Uganda’s district and national HMIS. Best practices included integrated reporting and performance review, among others. Limited priority and attention is given to family planning data collection at the facility and national levels. Data are not used by the health facilities that collect them. We recommend reviewing and tailoring data collection forms and ensuring their availability at health facilities. All staff involved in data reporting should be trained and regularly supervised.

Developing and validating an image processing algorithm for evaluating gravel road dust

Daily traffic on arid gravel roads can easily generate dust. Dust emitted from gravel roads creates several problems such as aggravated asthma, breathing difficulties, reducing crop yields, and even death. Therefore, local agencies tend to track the dust amounts on the gravel roads in order to maintain them in good conditions. An accurate detection of dust amounts is very crucial in Gravel Roads Management System (GRMS). Data collection is considered as one of the main challenges facing local agencies due to budget constraints. This paper establishes a novel method for an automatic recognition of dust amounts on gravel roads. This algorithm, “Simple Dust Classification Algorithm”, uses images taken from smartphone application, “Road roid”, to classify dust amounts by using proprietary Digital Image Processing algorithms. A Dustometer device was used to validate the proposed algorithm. Dustometer measurements, supported by statistical analysis, demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves an outstanding dust amount classification accuracy. Hence, the proposed algorithm is a promising alternative to assist local agencies in data collection and maintenance planning.

Real-time resource tracking for analyzing value-adding time in construction

Abstract Improving the effectiveness of production control has attracted the interest of researchers and lean construction practitioners over recent years, through techniques such as Last Planner System (LPS) and Location-based Management System (LBMS). However, in these techniques, data collection and analysis still remain manual. Remotely locating workers on site has been suggested as a potential technology to collect crucial data required for production control. The purpose of this study is to test the applicability of a real-time tracking system for collecting data for production control in different types of construction projects. We applied Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology in real-time tracking of workers in three case projects, including residential, office building, and plumbing renovation. We compared various tracking device placement strategies and analyzed the share of uninterrupted presence of workers in work locations based on the collected data. The findings show that both location-based and time-based information of workers can be obtained in real time from the proposed system, but issues of accuracy and coverage need to be considered when defining the data collection plan for each project. Accuracy and coverage issues can be resolved to a significant degree by applying heuristics in data analysis rather than investing in a more sophisticated tracking technology. The conclusion is that real-time tracking technologies are ready for implementation when certain heuristics and guidelines for installation are followed. It is possible to calculate a real-time presence index on a construction site. These data could be used to evaluate the impact of construction management interventions on waste on-site.

The CARD™ System for improving the vaccination experience at school: Results of a small-scale implementation project on program delivery.

We conducted a small-scale implementation study that integrated The CARD™ System (C-Comfort, A-Ask, R-Relax, D-Distract)-a multifaceted knowledge translation intervention designed to improve the vaccination experience at school-within the school vaccination program. Mixed methods design, including a controlled clinical trial and focus group interviews. The experimental group included five schools whereby CARD™ was implemented. The control group included five schools whereby no changes were made. Focus groups were held at the end of the school year. For nurses trained in CARD™, additional focus groups were held at CARD™ training and after the first round of vaccine clinic visits. Outcomes included vaccination rate at school and adult stakeholder perceptions. Altogether, 323 students attended study schools. Fifty-five nurses, school staff, and parents participated in 15 focus groups. The school vaccination rate did not differ (P>0.05) between groups for round 1 clinics (76% versus 77%) or round 2 clinics (68% versus 70%). Participants reported acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, and satisfaction with CARD™. Experimental group nurses were able to integrate CARD™ within usual activities, including clinic planning, student education, and clinic-day set-up and student vaccinations. Students in experimental schools were described by nurses and school staff as more prepared and less fearful during vaccinations. Nurses reported that CARD™ built on their practice; they had higher confidence in their ability to assess pain and fear and higher satisfaction with their ability to manage it. Nurses also reported improved collaboration with students and with each other. All stakeholder groups recommended continuing CARD™. Some additional time was required, primarily related to clinic planning activities and data collection for study purposes. CARD™ is a promising new approach for improving the delivery of vaccinations at school. Exploration of approaches to increase parental reach and monitoring of vaccination uptake rate over time are recommended.

On stability measures and effects of data structure in the recognition of areas of endemism

Incomplete data sampling, bias, and like properties of distribution datasets that potentially introduce uncertainty in biogeographical analyses and blur biogeographical patterns; therefore, it is important to understand their influence. Despite their relevance, these problems have been largely overlooked in biogeography, where concepts such as ambiguity, stability or support have not even been defined. Here, we propose two stability measures for hypotheses of areas of endemism (AEs) and use them to explore the degree to which different structural qualities of data affect the results of analyses of endemism. Our findings suggest that different types of data incompleteness have different effects on the recovery of the species composition and the geographical or spatial structure of AEs, showing that distinct levels of sampling coverage affect the stability of results in different ways. We show that a small proportion of poorly sampled species may have a stronger impact on AEs stability than many species with medium sampling and that excluding poorly sampled species from the analyses does not guarantee more stable results. These results highlight the importance of planning data collection and indicate that, in order to obtain more stable results, focusing on completing the distribution of strongly undersampled species might be preferable to adding records of any species randomly.

3440 Emergency Dispatch Research Workshop: Engaging a Forgotten Professional Population in Research

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Emergency (911) dispatchers are the first link in the chain of care for the estimated 240 million emergency calls made each year. Yet even as emergency medicine, public safety, and public health have seen increasing study, emergency dispatch has very seldom been included in that research. Part of the reason is that, while emergency medicine is connected with hospital physicians and public health with university departments, emergency dispatch is largely invisible, not represented in university programs, and staffed by professionals without research training–and often without higher education or academic degrees. The purpose of our Dispatch Research Workshop is to engage these professionals in guided research projects of their own design, with the ultimate aims of both engaging more emergency dispatchers in research and increasing the field’s overall capacity to generate evidence-based practice. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The workshop is help in tandem with a national Emergency Dispatch conference. Participants are recruited through advertisements in professional journals and relevant social media sites. The workshop is co-led by members of a partnership between the nonprofit organizations the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch and the UCLA Prehospital Care Research Forum, along with the dispatch data aggregation company FirstWatch. The Workshop occurs over two eight-hour days, and participants generally have no research experience or background. By the end of the second day, groups have developed research questions and methods, begun to write IRB proposals, and created data collection and analysis plans. Throughout the remainder of the year, research mentors support the completion of the project, and completed projects are presented at the following year’s conference and submitted (if desired) for publication. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: During the first two years of the workshop, 36 attendees participated (17 the first year and 19 the second). Three successful attendees of the first workshop helped lead the second as research mentors. Three research projects were completed from the first year; all three were presented as posters and are now being prepared for publication as manuscripts. Four projects have emerged from the second year’s workshop. Assessments and one-on-one interviews with participants at the end of each workshop have led to continuous change and improvement in the delivery of the material, as well as the outline of a year’s worth of support materials, which is currently in development. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Developing a true evidence base for practice in emergency dispatch will serve all of our communities, and feedback from our participants (as well as significant existing research in practitioner-engaged research) indicates that those who participate in research have a better understanding of the value of evidence-based practice, are more likely to adopt it, and are more likely to raise questions and test theories in their own professional life. Also, providing these practitioners the opportunity to conduct and publish research raises their stature and the stature of their profession, helping it achieve its rightful place alongside other professions in public safety and health.

An epidemiological study of injuries in an urban slum community in the metropolitan city of Mumbai

Background: In India, injuries account for an estimated 15% of total deaths and 15% of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) with resulting economic losses of 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) for the country. Learning about injuries is the first step to reduce the risks of injuries in the community. The objectives of the study were to describe the nature of injuries and their relationship to select epidemiological variables and also to assess the type of health facility accessed and the cost incurred therein.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out from May 2016 to October 2017. A recall period of three months for minor injuries & one year for major injuries or deaths due to injury was used. Data was collected by using semi-structured, pre-designed, pre-tested and open-ended questionnaires.Results: In this study, 70.7% subjects were male and 29.3% were female. There were 216 injuries either affecting work or for which treatment was availed, out of which 170 did not have knowledge about first-aid. 44.4% of study subjects belonged to 25- 44 years and 35.6% injured were daily wage-earners. 37.96% of injuries were caused by road traffic accident and 19.9% found to have suffered from cut injuries and there were 5 deaths. 48.3% study subject took treatment in the government hospital because of the affordable cost.Conclusions: This study can help the integrated disease surveillance program to plan data collection on injuries occurring in the community in order to get a comprehensive picture of total morbidity.

VP75 Improving Access To Ultra-Orphan Medicines In NHS Scotland

IntroductionMedicines for very rare conditions present challenges for healthcare globally due to uncertain evidence and often extremely high costs. In 2014, SMC introduced an ultra-orphan framework placing less emphasis on the cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY). Despite this, many medicines continued to be not recommended. A new pathway aimed at improved patient access based on further evidence collection is now being implemented.MethodsThe development of the new pathway has involved collaboration with key stakeholders including patient groups, the pharmaceutical industry, and clinicians. Medicines that meet a new definition (based on four criteria including the prevalence of the condition treated) will be appraised by the SMC committee and a data collection plan will then be agreed with the pharmaceutical company.ResultsFrom April 2019, medicines validated as ultra-orphans will initially be appraised using the broader decision-making framework and the SMC committee will outline key uncertainties in the clinical effectiveness. The medicine will then be available for a period of at least three years while further data are gathered, potentially comprising ongoing clinical trials, registry data, and patient reported outcome measures. SMC will then re-assess the clinical and economic evidence to inform a final decision on routine use of the medicine in NHS Scotland.ConclusionsThe new pathway for ultra-orphan medicines will allow further evidence on their longer-term clinical benefits to be collected before a final decision on routine use. This approach reflects the current direction of travel in medicines regulation, by making medicines that address an unmet need available to patients at an earlier stage of development.

The Outcome of Refractory or Relapsed but Not Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in China: Results from the Real-TREND Study

BACKGROUND. The definition and outcome of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have been ambiguous due to small sample sizes and varied definitions in previous studies[1]. The recent SCHOLAR-1 study[2] was the first large-scale analysis focusing on patients with refractory DLBCL. Patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL were not included in this study.OBJECTIVE. The primary objective is to further validate the outcome of SCHOLAR-1 study, including overall survival (OS) and response rate (RR) to salvage therapy, of patients with refractory DLBCL in a different geographical location. The secondary objective is to analyze the outcome (OS) of patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL.PATIENTS AND METHODS. Electronic health records of patients diagnosed with DLBCL and admitted to one of the 7 hospitals in 5 cities in southern China (Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, and Fuzhou) from 2010 to 2015 were reviewed. Structured data was manually collected according to a pre-defined data collection plan. Patients' survival statuses were regularly followed through telephone interviews. In this study, refractory DLBCL was defined as progressive or stable disease as the best response to any line of chemotherapy, and relapsed but not refractory DLBCL was define as a relapsed disease occurred without being refractory after disease remission. For patients with refractory DLBCL, OS was estimated from the time when the refractory status was determined. Among patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL, OS was estimated from the time of response evaluation in the last line of chemotherapy. RR to salvage therapy was only evaluated in patients with refractory DLBCL.RESULTS. Among 2,711 patients with DLBCL admitted to the 7 hospitals, 461 patients were refractory and 144 were relapsed but not refractory. For all 605 patients, the median OS was 16.8 (95% CI: 14.4-21.4) months and 2-year survival rate was 43.7% (95% CI: 39.7%-48.1%). Among patients with refractory DLBCL, the median OS was 12.3 (95% CI: 10.5, 14.4) months and 2-year survival rate was 33.8% (95% CI: 29.5%-38.8%). Among patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL, median OS was 82.6 (95% CI: 48.5-NA) months and 2-year survival rate was 73.9% (95% CI: 66.8%, 81.8%). Patients with refractory DLBCL had significantly inferior overall survival compared patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL (hazard ratio [HR] 2.92, 95% CI: 2.20-3.89, p value <0.001). Among patients with refractory DLBCL, the estimated RR was 28.56% (95% CI: 20.28%-36.84%) to the next line of therapy and the estimated complete response rate (CRR) was 7.90% (95% CI: 3.02%-12.79%). RR to salvage therapy was consistently poor among subgroups in patients with refractory DLBCL.CONCLUSION. The REAL-TREND study demonstrates poor survival and response to salvage therapy for patients with refractory DLBCL, which is consistent with the results of the SCHOLAR-1 study. But patients with relapsed but not refractory DLBCL have significantly greater chance of long-term survival.REFERENCE.Colosia A, Njue A, Trask PC, Olivares R, Khan S, Abbe A, et al. Clinical efficacy and safety in relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a systematic literature review. Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia. 2014;14(5):343-55.e6. Epub 2014/04/29. doi: 10.1016/j.clml.2014.02.012. PubMed PMID: 24768510.Crump M, Neelapu SS, Farooq U, Van Den Neste E, Kuruvilla J, Westin J, et al. Outcomes in refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: results from the international SCHOLAR-1 study. Blood. 2017;130(16):1800-8. Epub 2017/08/05. doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-03-769620. PubMed PMID: 28774879; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC5649550. DisclosuresNo relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

Analysis of Equipment Maintenance for Terminal Storage Batteries of the Distribution Network

The passage analyzes maintenance and management plan for terminal storage battery of the distribution network; it analyses causes for increasingly declining of bearing performance for currently applied storage batteries of the distribution network; it proposes and analyzes technological plan for storage battery maintenance, data collection and uploading and collective management and regulation plan for storage batteries.

Marcus Institute for Brain Health: Selecting and Sharing Outcomes to Promote Evidence-Based Treatments

The recently funded Marcus Institute for Brain Health (MIBH) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a clinical care institute for those with a history of TBI and psychological health conditions such as post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety. The mission is to deliver comprehensive care, conduct focused research and export knowledge to benefit Veterans, athletes, civilian patients, their families, health care professionals and society. MIBH strives to advance training, educational and research activities in support of the clinical care model. Towards this end, MIBH leadership undertook a process to select programmatic outcome measures, with an eye towards psychometric soundness and previous adoption throughout TBI treatment and research communities. As such, data were collected from a number of programs (e.g., FITBIR, IMPACT, NINDS CDE, TBI Model Systems, TRACK-TBI) regarding outcomes measures utilized/collected. These findings will be presented, as well as measures ultimately selected by MIBH. In addition, plans for MIBH data collection and sharing will be discussed.

On the record: Randomised household surveys: challenges and considerations

As anyone with empirical fieldwork experience knows, even best laid data collection plans rarely go off without a hitch. There is often rich learning from these challenges, although we seldom reflect on them in the literature. This interview asks the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI) director, Guy Lamb, and study coordinator Ncedo Ntsasa Mngqibisa about their experiences carrying out the Gugulethu component of a randomised household survey project that took place in Gugulethu and Manenberg in Cape Town in 2017. Young people between the ages of 12 and 18 years old, and one of their caregivers, were interviewed using a detailed (structured) questionnaire. This project was a partnership between SaVI, Amandla EduFootball and Dr Ian Edelstein from the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and focused on youth resilience, deviance and development. The project was funded by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport in the Western Cape Provincial Government.

I-PASS Mentored Implementation Handoff Curriculum: Implementation Guide and Resources.

Communication failures during shift-to-shift handoffs of patient care have been identified as a leading cause of adverse events in health care institutions. The I-PASS Handoff Program is a comprehensive handoff program that has been shown to decrease rates of medical errors and adverse events. As part of the spread and adaptation of this program, a comprehensive implementation guide was created to assist individuals in the implementation process. The I-PASS Mentored Implementation Guide grew out of materials created for the original I-PASS Study, Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) mentored implementation programs, and the experience of members of the I-PASS Study Group. The guide provides a comprehensive framework of all elements required to implement the large-scale I-PASS Handoff Program and contains detailed information on generating institutional support, training activities, a campaign, measuring impact, and sustaining the program. Thirty-two sites across North America utilized the guide as part of the SHM program. The guide served as a main reference for 477 hours of mentoring phone calls between site leads and their mentors. Postprogram surveys from wave 2 sites revealed that 85% (N = 34) of respondents felt the quality of the guide was very good/excellent. Site leads noted that they referenced the guide most often during the early part of the program and that they referenced the sections on the curriculum and handoff observations most often. The I-PASS Mentored Implementation Guide is an essential resource for those looking to implement the large-scale I-PASS Handoff Program at their institution.