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Development of a minimization instrument for allocation of a hospital-level performance improvement intervention to reduce waiting times in Ontario emergency departments

Chad A Leaver1, Astrid Guttmann1,2,3, Merrick Zwarenstein1,3,4, Brian H Rowe5, Geoff Anderson1,3, Therese Stukel1,3, Brian Golden3,6, Robert Bell7, Dante Morra7,8, Howard Abrams8,9 and Michael J Schull1,10,3,4,8*

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1 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Canada

2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

3 Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

4 Centre for Health Services Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Canada

5 Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

6 Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

7 University Health Network, 90 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Canada

8 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

9 Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave, Toronto, Canada

10 Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Canada

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Implementation Science 2009, 4:32 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-32

Published: 8 June 2009

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Candidate factors by change stages. Table lists 33 candidate factors by organizational change stages that the expert panel assessed across specified domains.

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