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Table 4 Qualitative RE-AIM questions used in the analysis phases 3 and 4

From: Implementation of remote home care: assessment guided by the RE-AIM framework

RE-AIM Dimensions

Questions guiding the analysis

Reach

What factors contribute to the participation/non-participation of the participants?

What might have been done to get more of the target audience to participate?

Effectiveness

Did the intervention work to effect the outcomes noted?

What other factors contributed to the results?

Are the outcomes found accurate?

Are the results meaningful?

Adoption

What factors contributed to the organization and its individuals taking up the intervention? What barriers interacted with the intervention to prevent adoption? Was there partial or complete adoption? Why did some staff members in these organizations participate and others did not?

Implementation

How was the intervention implemented? By whom and when? What influenced implementation or lack of implementation? What combination of implementation effects affected the outcome results?

How and why was the program or policy adapted or modified over time?

Maintenance

Is the intervention being implemented (and adapted) after the intervention core period?

What is sustained, what discontinued, what modified- and why?

  1. RE-AIM: Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance
  2. Holtrop and Rabin [22]