Implementation and evaluation of a nurse-led intervention to augment an existing residential aged care facility outreach service with a visual telehealth consultation: stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

Table 2 Characteristics of episodes of care^a

Characteristic	Response/statistic	Pre-implementation (N = 333)	Post-implementation (N = 421)
Episodes of care	ED ACE/VTC with no ED presentation	35 (11%)	72 (17%)
	Presented to ED (after ED ACE/VTC)	63 (19%)	150 (36%)
	Presented to ED (without ED ACE/VTC)	235 (70%)	199 (47%)
ED ACE/VTC		98 (29%)	222 (53%)
Crude annual rate of ED presentation per 100 RACF beds ^a		41 per 100 RACF beds	37 per 100 RACF beds

^a based on 98 months of data pre-implementation (average of 6.1 months per RACF) and 126 months of data post-implementation (average of 7.9 months per RACF)

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