Factors influencing the long-term sustainment of quality improvements made in addiction treatment facilities: a qualitative study

Table 1 Agreement between narrative description of sustainment and data measuring post-intervention wait-list reduction by intervention arm

	Observed wait list data (n = 20)		Observed wait list data not available (n = 13)
	Sustained	Not sustained	Observed wait list data not available (n = 13)
Narrative
Report sustained	3 combination 1 coaching 1 interest circle 1 learning session	2 interest circle 1 combination 1 coaching	2 coaching 1 learning session
Report not sustained		4 interest circle 2 combination 2 coaching 2 learning session	3 coaching 3 learning session 3 interest circle 1 combination

The post-intervention measurement period was more than 2 years following the cessation of all intervention activities, and more than 3 years after the completion of the intervention segment where wait-time reduction was the primary focus. For the observed data, “sustainers” were defined as those with a shorter wait time post-intervention compared to baseline values with a p value < .05. Thirteen agencies we interviewed did not have sufficient data available from that time period to categorize. Later time periods had even greater amounts of missing data

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