Table 4

Multi-level model: predicted relations between conditions and outcomes (correlations), associations between applied changes and the conditions and outcomes (fixed effects) and variance components at three levels (random effects)

Organisational support

Team organisation

External support

Perceived success

Performance indicator


Correlations

Organisational support

-

Team organisation

0.37c

-

External support

0.25b

0.21a

-

Perceived support

0.30b

0.29b

0.08

-

Performance indicator

-0.19

0.14

-0.05

-0.08

-

Fixed effects

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

(Intercept)

-0.45 (0.16)b

-0.11 (0.18)

-0.69 (0.17)c

5.57 (0.31)c

2.03 (0.21)c

Applied changes

0.12 (0.04)c

0.04 (0.04)

0.19 (0.04)c

0.31 (0.07)c

0.09 (0.05)a

Random effects

Intercept variance at:

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

Estimate (SE)

- level one (team)

0.69 (0.08)c

0.86 (0.11)c

0.75 (0.08)c

2.01 (0.29)c

0.62 (0.11)c

- level two (QIC)

0.00 (0.00)

0.07 (0.06)

0.03 (0.04)

0.42 (0.23)b

0.15 (0.09)b

- level three (hospital)

0.15 (0.07)a

0.06 (0.05)

0.08 (0.06)

0.04 (0.12)

0.00 (0.05)

Percentage of variance at:

- level one (team)

82%

87%

87%

81%

81%

- level two (QIC)

0%

7%

3%

17%

19%

- level three (hospital)

18%

6%

9%

2%

0%


a p < 0.05; b p < 0.01; c p < 0.001

Note: teams are nested in QICs and hospitals (Figure 2)

Dückers et al. Implementation Science 2009 4:74   doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-74

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