Table 3 Activities of the Project Support Service
Stage of project | Activities | Proposed | SHARE projects | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
Decision-making and project development | Searching literature | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Appraisal of evidence | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Analysis of local data | ✓ | |||||
Determination of nature and scope of problem | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Clarification of the intervention | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Analysis of feasibility and risk | ✓ | |||||
Project planning | Confirmation and documentation of scope, objectives, background, etc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Identification of needs of clinical project team | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Identification of stakeholders | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Project management | Confirmation and documentation of governance processes | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Establishment of management and administration systems and processes | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Implementation planning | Capture and analysis of barriers and enablers | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Identification of strategies to address barriers and enablers | ✓ | |||||
Development of implementation plan (including communication plan) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Liaison with committees/departments for authorisation of practice change | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Liaison with committees/departments for authorisation of documentation | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Evaluation planning | Development of evaluation framework and plan | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Development of costing/economic evaluation plan | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Identification of relevant tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Development of data collection systems | Liaison with Health Information Management to determine codes | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Liaison with Clinical Information Management to access patient data | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Liaison with data analysts, statistician, health economist, other experts | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Development of data collection tools | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Development of electronic database (eg Access or Excel) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Training project workers in use of database programs | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Evaluation | Assistance with data entry | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Assistance with data cleaning | ✓ | |||||
Assistance with data analysis | ✓ | |||||
Reporting | Development of reporting schedule | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Assistance with reporting | ✓ | |||||