In total, 8,640 patients met the definition of septic shock with time of vasopressor/inotropic initiation documented.
Hospital-specific documents, including project initiation documents, 'lessons learned' documents and local evaluation reports, were also collected in order to investigate the more formal (i.e. official or desired by management) changes to work practices.
Documents collected from the trusts were copies of the trusts' organisational structure, deployment timelines for the NHS Care Records Service, project initiation documents, business cases, risk registers, minutes from board meetings related to the NHS Care Records Service, "lessons learnt" documents, training strategy documents, and annual reports.
Progression-free survival (PFS) was measured from 1st line treatment initiation until documented progression or death from any cause.
Progression-free survival time was calculated from the date of treatment initiation until documented disease progression or death due to any cause (whichever occurred first).
In Ethiopia, one third of babies do not receive breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and national prevalence of breastfeeding initiation was documented to be low with wide regional differences [ 1, 8- 14].
Treatment initiation was documented in 570 (95.6%) children; 380 (63.8%) were referred to their local health clinic for treatment, 98 (16.4%) were admitted to TB hospitals, 34 (5.7%) were transferred back to the hospital from where they were referred, 8 (1.3%) remained in the same hospital, in 9 (1.5%) cases the place of transfer was not noted and 41 (6.9%) children died.
To document initiation of the intervention, the volunteer coordinator interacted with the peer volunteer one week after matching to confirm that contact was made with the participant.
