Clinical Research Directory

The Base Implementation Toolkit (BIT) includes strategies across pre-implementation, active implementation, and sustainment phases. Pre-implementation BIT strategies include provider and staff education meetings (e.g., meetings introducing processes for referring and delivering Diabetes Coaching), identification of and training the psychology providers and one medical provider as Champions for implementation and deliverer of Diabetes Coaching (psychology providers only), materials to increase demand for Diabetes Coaching among families (e.g., family-facing educational materials), and development of a workflow blueprint and of tools to monitor implementation. Active implementation BIT strategies include reporting summary level data on uptake of referrals to and family engagement in Diabetes Coaching to clinical type 1 diabetes providers, as well as facilitation (i.e., consultation) to support problem-solving workflow and other implementation challenges.

During active implementation, two strategies (audit and feedback, adapting delivery format and timing of Diabetes Coaching) may be added to BIT (BIT-Enhanced) to improve adoption among medical providers with lower referral rates (adoption rate \<80%) and/or to increase reach if few families schedule and attend Diabetes Coaching (\<6 families scheduled per group and/or \<4 families attend group). BIT-Enhanced requires additional time and resources (e.g., Champions and providers review individual data, collaborate on ways to increase referrals). Thus, examining if these additional strategies meaningfully improve outcomes offers critical data for maintaining only the strategies that are necessary and sufficient for adoption, reach, and fidelity outcomes.

Key to maintaining implementation of any evidence-based practice, including Diabetes Coaching, is considering sustainability early on. The primary sustainability strategy (BIT-Sustainment) involves training multiple Champions early and planful progression of their role in the implementation efforts, from first participating in PI-led (implementation and content expert) consultation huddles and shadowing data tracking to then independently leading these huddles, reporting adoption data, and, for those requiring BIT-Enhanced, employing audit and feedback and reach data as needed. The BIT-Sustainment will be deployed for all providers (BIT and BITE) during the sustainment phase of implementation.