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Table 1 Example interview guide questions and related CFIR domains/constructs

From: Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of new critical care practices during COVID-19: a multicenter qualitative study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)

Interview Guide Question

CFIR Domain(s)

CFIR Construct(s)

How did covid affect your usual ICU practices?

Inner Setting

Tension for Change [Renamed: Necessity of Change]

When changing these specific practices, how were these decisions made? Who was involved in making these decisions and why?

Process

Formally appointed internal implementation leaders

In thinking about all the changes you’ve had to make, what strategies, tools and/or resources have been the most helpful?

Inner Setting

Networks & Communications; Leadership Engagement; Available Resources

Which practice changes were easiest/hardest to implement? What made these changes easy/difficult to implement?

Intervention characteristics; Inner Setting

Complexity; Available Resources

What could your institution do to be more responsive to the needs of covid patients?

Outer setting

Needs & Resources of Those Served by the Organization [Renamed: Needs of Patients]

How did institutional regulations or external guidelines effect the way you provided care to covid patients?

Intervention characteristics

Innovation Source

How were these changes communicated to staff?

Inner Setting; Process

Networks & Communications; Access to Knowledge & Information; Key Stakeholders [Renamed: Engaging Staff]

How did the staff respond to these changes?

Inner Setting; Characteristics of Individuals

Implementation Climate; Knowledge & beliefs about the innovation [Renamed: Knowledge & beliefs about changes]

  1. CFIR Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research