Evaluation of the 1
Encouraging Better Practice 1
in Aged Care (EBPAC) Initiative 1
Final Report 2
Key messages 8
Executive summary 9
1INTRODUCTION 13
1.1Background to the EBPAC Program 13
1.2Links between the current program and earlier rounds 13
1.3EBPAC and ASCIHAG Objectives 13
1.4 Individual project aims and objectives 15
1.5Targeted literature review 16
2EVALUATION METHODOLOGY 18
2.1The CHSD Evaluation Framework 18
2.2Evaluation approach 19
2.3Evaluation of the national roll-out projects 22
3PROJECT DELIVERY 28
3.1Project groupings 28
3.2Project evidence 29
3.3Project implementation 30
3.4Leadership and change projects 33
3.5Community care projects 37
3.6National roll-out projects 45
3.7Comparison with Round 1 and Round 2 48
4PROJECT IMPACT 49
4.1Impact and outcomes on consumers 49
4.2Impact and outcomes on providers 53
4.3Impact and outcomes on the aged care system 59
5COSTING ANALYSIS 69
5.1Cost implications of leadership and change projects 69
CL1 69
CL2 70
RC3 70
CC6 70
5.2Cost implications of community care projects 71
CC1 71
CC2 71
CC3 71
CC4 71
CC5 72
Summary 72
Description 72
5.3Cost implications of national roll-out projects 72
5.4Summary 74
6GENERALISABILITY 75
6.1Leadership and change projects 75
6.2Community projects 77
6.3National roll-out projects 78
7SUSTAINABILITY 80
7.1Factors that promote sustainability 80
7.2Sustaining benefits for consumers and stakeholders 83
7.3Continuing the activities 84
7.4Continuing the new processes 86
8DISSEMINATION 92
8.1Type of dissemination 92
8.2Purpose of dissemination 93
8.3Follow up after dissemination 94
8.4Effectiveness of dissemination 95
8.5Summary 96
9DISCUSSION 98
9.1What was achieved? 98
9.2Program objectives 99
9.3The science of implementation 102
10CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 106
APPENDIX 1 - TARGETED LITERATURE REVIEW 108
References 110
APPENDIX 2 - PROJECT SUMMARIES 111
APPENDIX 3 - NATIONAL ROLL-OUT PROJECTS: STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEW REPORT 125
Methodology 125
Summary of results 125
Champions for Skin Integrity (CSI): Telephone Interview Results 125
Facilities with no plans to implement the toolkit 126
Facilities Planning to Implement the Toolkit 128
Facilities that have commenced implementation or fully implemented the toolkit 129
Palliative Care Approach Toolkit: Telephone Interview Results 141
Facilities with no plans to implement the toolkit 142
10.1Facilities who are planning to implement the toolkit 144
10.2Facilities that were currently implementing the Toolkit 145
APPENDIX 4 - NATIONAL ROLL-OUT PROJECTS: SURVEY ANALISYS 158
Methodology 158
Summary of results 158
11Champions for Skin Integrity (CSI) survey results 158
12Palliative Approach Toolkit survey results 164
APPENDIX 5 - CHAMPIONS FOR SKIN INTEGRITY (CSI) SURVEY 171
APPENDIX 6 - PALLIATIVE APPROACH TOOLKIT SURVEY 174