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Table 3 Exploratory objectives

From: Sustainability of evidence-based practices in the management of infants with bronchiolitis in hospital settings - a PREDICT study protocol

To determine:

• The proportion of infants presenting to hospital with bronchiolitis in the acute care perioda, at intervention group hospitals, who received care that adhered with each of the five individual Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline Recommendations known to have no benefitb: a) two- years (2019) following delivery of a targeted intervention [34]; and b) one- year (2018) following delivery of an intervention designed to promote evidence-based practice adherence [34];

• The proportion of infants presenting to hospital with bronchiolitis in the acute care perioda, at control group hospitals, who received care that adhered with each of the five individual Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline Recommendations known to have no benefitb: a) two- years (2019) following delivery of an intervention designed to promote evidence-based practice adherence [4, 34]; and b) one- year (2018) following delivery of bronchiolitis intervention [4, 34];

• The difference between control and intervention group hospitals in the proportion of infants presenting to hospitals with bronchiolitis who received care that adhered with each of the five individual Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline Recommendations known to have no benefitb in the acute care period: a) two- years (2019); following the completion of the PREDICT Bronchiolitis KT Study [4, 34]; and b) one- year (2018); following the completion of the PREDICT Bronchiolitis KT Study [4, 34];

• The difference between control and intervention group hospitals in the proportion of infants presenting to hospital with bronchiolitis who received care that adhered with all five Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline Recommendations known to have no benefitb in the acute care period: a) two- years (2019) following the completion of the PREDICT Bronchiolitis KT Study (composite outcomes of all five practices) [4, 34]; and b) one- year (2018) following the completion of the PREDICT Bronchiolitis KT Study (composite of all five practices) [4, 34];

• The trends in the proportions of infants presenting to hospital with bronchiolitis who received care that adhered with each of the individual five Australasian Bronchiolitis Guideline Recommendations known to have no benefitb yearly from 2014 to 2019 in the acute care period, at control and intervention group hospitals [34].

  1. a First 24 hours of hospitalisation, b no use of: i) salbutamol, ii) glucocorticoids, iii) antibiotics, iv) adrenaline, and v) chest x-ray