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Table 2 Work executed

From: Cost-effectiveness of a nurse-led intervention to optimise implementation of guideline-concordant continence care: Study protocol of the COCON study

Work to be executed: Intervention components

Concepts

Research questions

- preparation: handed over a bladder diary to fill in during three days; asked to take morning urine to the consult

- first consultation(s): inventory of questions and needs; urine test; bladder diary check; history taking; advice, education and information on UI and appropriate care options followed by shared decision making on care; referral;

- follow-up consults at 3 and 6 months and at the end of the project, additional consults aligned with the type of UI and care agreed on (according to the protocol) to monitor and evaluate continence status and treatment effects.

- letter to GP and physiotherapist with advices

Nurses’ delivery of activities, type of activities sequence of activities; collaboration with community pharmacists, GPs and other primary continence care professionals

• What proportion of people received the subsequent intervention components?

• How often were the intervention components delivered?

• How were the intervention components delivered?

Nurses’ protocol adherence and deviations; decision making on appropriate treatment advice

• What protocol deviations were necessary?

• How was decision making reached?

• What changes were proposed and accepted in care for participating women?