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Table 3 Analytical framework based on the PARIHS framework [14, 15]

From: Qualitative analysis of challenges and enablers to providing age friendly hospital care in an Australian health system

Codes

Explanatory Notes

Evidence

 Clinical experience and local information

Experience of individuals, teams, services that influences decision making; outlook to other service models/initiatives

 Patient experience

Patient or family engagement in service delivery or design (formal or informal)

 Research

Research evidence (e.g. papers, guidelines, conferences), data sources or processes (e.g. local or state-wide databases, audits), evaluation of service delivery

Recipients

 Capability

Knowledge, skills, memory, attention and decision processes, behavioural regulation

 Motivation

Social/professional role and identity, values, beliefs about capabilities, optimism, beliefs about consequences, intentions, goals, reinforcement, emotion

Inner Context (ward and organisation)

 Adequate resourcesa

Time, personnel, equipment, education materials

 Culture

Specific to care of older people and factors influencing this (e.g. teamwork, interdisciplinary care, innovation), ward/service line/organisation level

 Experience with change

Past implementation/change experiences: positive/ negative, factors associated with success/ failure

 Leadership

Formal and informal leaders, ward/service line/executive, across disciplines

 Organisational priorities

Specific to care of older people and factors influencing this (e.g. teamwork, interdisciplinary care, innovation)

 Structure

Hospital organisational structure (reporting, governance, service lines), physical structure (physical space, layout of wards/hospital), structure of university courses and curriculum,

 Systems and processes

Models of care, processes for screening, referral, discharge planning, communication processes,

Outer context (health service district, state, national)

 Environmental (in)stability

Change in political or social environment which may affect older people and/or health care

 Incentives and mandates

External funding, restrictions,

 Policy drivers, priorities

Broad political agenda relating to older people and/or health care

 Inter-organisational networks and relationships

Networks and relationships with community (aged care, GPs, community service providers), universities, other health care organisations

 Regulatory frameworks

Health care (i.e. accreditation standards) and university (i.e. competency standards for new graduates)

 Society values and expectationsa

Society perceptions related older people and/or health care

  1. aThese codes were generated inductively from the interview data