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Table 2 Facilitators and barriers to P3P implementation

From: Implementation of prostate cancer treatment decision aid in Michigan: a qualitative study

TICD determinant domains

Perceived facilitators

Perceived barriers

Guideline factors

• Simplified process for implementation

• P3P serves as an “on-ramp” to PRO surveys

• Provider skepticism regarding SDM

• Provider skepticism regarding P3P

Patient factors

• Enhances patient experience

• Helps to glean information from patients

• Objectively captures patient views

• MUSIC provided tablet computers to bridge the gap in access

• Added burden on patients

• Patients perceiving P3P questions to be intrusive

• Patient access to email, internet and computers

Individual provider factors

• Helps urologists have treatment discussions

• Incorporates patient input in decision-making

• Perception that P3P could go against urologists preferred workflow

• P3P vs. other tools (AUA-SI, or IPSS-SF)

Provider interactions

• Teamwork-coordination between urologists, mid-level providers and coordinators, navigators

• Creating internal notification

• Coordination with MUSIC staff

• Incoming referrals for treatment (patients seen by different urologists so opportunity to complete P3P is absent)

Capacity for organizational change

• Clinical champions

• Dedicated staff assigned to facilitate P3P implementation

• Electronic Health Record integration (alerts, reminders and EHR smart phrases for physician orders)

• Organizational factors such as organizational buy-in, IRB issues

• Staffing—turnovers and capacity

• Competing priorities

• Fear of change or fear of forgetting