Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Randomized assignment of participants	Non-randomized study design
Full economic evaluation  • Report on both costs and consequences of implementation strategies	Partial economic evaluation  • Report costs without reference to outcomes
Primary study  • Trial-based economic evaluation	Study reporting on secondary or non-empirical data  • Economic modelling study without trial-based economic evaluation  • Systematic review and meta-analysis  • Qualitative Study, text and opinion paper, methodology paper, book review, letter, protocol, and conference abstract
Adequately* describe the implementation strategy or strategies being used	Only describes interventions without reference to the implementation strategies employed
Test the effect of implementation strategies on implementation outcomes  • Types II and III effectiveness implementation hybrid trials	Report on implementation strategies without testing their effect on implementation outcomes  • Type I effectiveness-implementation hybrid trials
Human patients or participants within a clinical setting  • Primary, secondary, or tertiary care settings  • Digital intervention in conjunction with a health professional	Animal study and human study within a community or non-health sector  • School setting  • Digital health intervention solely outside of the clinical setting and without linkage with a health professional

^*According to the Proctor et al. (2013) framework [17]