Data collection
breathing difficulties, overdose, trauma
SECONDARY, RECRUITMENT
Data were collected during the recruitment process from the administrative database of the paramedic services in the four study regions. The following data was recorded and used in the recruitment analysis: gender, age, parental ethnicity, whether the individual lived alone, their reason for calling 9-1-1, the outcome of the phone call, whether there was a home visit conducted to recruit the participant, whether consent was obtained, and reasons for not participating. A waiver of consent was obtained from the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board (HiREB) during the intention-to-treat portion of the study, where consent was not required prior to randomization into the intervention group (attempt to offer the CP@home program) and control group (usual care) since all baseline data collected on participants was from de-identified secondary data sources. The consent process has been previously described in the protocol for CP@home [For the purpose of this recruitment analysis, the availability of contact information was determined based on whether a contact attempt was made. Moreover, a phone call was the first line of contact to obtain initial verbal consent. Written consent was then obtained at the start of the first home visit. However, if verbal consent was not obtained because the individual was not able to be reached through a phone call, then a home visit was attempted to recruit participants, where written consent was obtained. For those who provided consent to receive the CP@home program, individual information was collected.During the data coding process, the reason for not participating was grouped into nine categories: not interested, patient was deceased, unable to consent, LTC patient, issue had resolved, has sufficient support/care, unable to connect with patient, unknown, and other. Similarly, the reason for calling 9-1-1 was grouped into nine categories: pain/unwell, lift assist, trauma, behavioural problems/psychiatric, breathing difficulties, musculoskeletal, overdose, and a cardiac issue. Allocation to each category was determined by the authors based on the information entered into the database by the paramedic.