Outcome | Measure |
Acceptability the perception among implementation stakeholders that the Ned Clinic is agreeable, palatable, or satisfactory | Post-implementation interviews with clinic staff (n=25) and patients (n=40) across all five study sites |
Adoption the intention, initial decision, or action to try or employ the Ned Clinic | |
Appropriateness the perceived fit, relevance, or compatibility of the Ned Clinic for a given practice, provider, or patient; and/or perceived fit of the clinic to address fragmented survivorship care | |
Sustainability the extent to which the Ned Clinic is maintained or institutionalised within a service settings’ ongoing, stable operations | |
Cost the cost impact of implementing the Ned Clinic | Clinic administrative logs |
Feasibility the extent to which the Ned Clinic can be successfully used or carried out within a given setting | Monthly videoconferences with Implementation Teams Quarterly audit and review of technical support tickets Annual observational site visits Log data analytics Clinic administrative logs |
Fidelity the degree to which the Ned Clinic was implemented as it was prescribed in the original protocol or as it was intended by the clinic developers | Monthly videoconferences with implementation teams Quarterly audit and review of technical support tickets Annual observational site visits Log data analytics Clinic administrative logs Checklist of fidelity to implementation service design |
Penetration the integration of the Ned Clinic within a service setting and its subsystems; also referred to as reach | The absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of PCa patients using virtualsed clinic services from the total population of PCa patients within each cancer centre |
Ned, no evidence of disease; PCa, prostate cancer.