A new section of the Living Textbook’s Dissemination and Implementation chapter describes how the Trauma Survivors Outcomes & Support (TSOS) pragmatic trial research team developed a rapid approach to implementation process assessments: the Rapid Assessment Procedure Informed Clinical Ethnography (RAPICE). Implementation assessments are typically time consuming and expensive, and the new approach embeds these procedures as part of the trial to increase efficiency and decrease cost.

Since its development within the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory, the RAPICE method has been used to address the Washington State COVID-19 outbreak to help rapidly identify primary and secondary COVID-19 prevention strategies that could be delivered using the TSOS care management platform.

For more information, see the April 19, 2019 Grand Rounds: Trauma Survivors Outcomes & Support (TSOS) Pragmatic Trial: Revisiting Effectiveness & Implementation Aims (Doug Zatzick, MD)