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Table 3.

Study characteristics

Year First Author and citation Title Evidence-based intervention Site of data collection Implementation setting Methods Theory, model, or framework named Definition of power provided
2018 Altaweli [29] Ethnographic study of the use of interventions during the second stage of labor in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Evidence-based procedures during the second stage of labor Saudi Arabia Clinic or hospital Qualitative No No
2014 Baeza [30] Evidence-based practice: Reflections from five European case studies Guideline-based stroke care England, Sweden, Poland Clinic or hospital Qualitative No Yes
2017 Bahr [31] Interprofessional Health Team Communication About Hospital Discharge: An Implementation Science Evaluation Study Structuredcommunication about readiness for discharge from hospital United States School; Clinic or hospital; Public health departments Qualitative Yes No
2017 Banks [32] The researchers’ role in knowledge translation: a realist evaluation of the development and implementation of diagnostic pathways for cancer in two United Kingdom localities Cancer diagnosis and referral pathway England Clinic or hospital Qualitative No No
2020 Bjonness [33] I’m not a diagnosis: Adolescents’ perspectives on user participation and shared decision-making in mental healthcare Evidence-based shared decision making in adolescent mental healthcare Norway Clinic or hospital Qualitative No Yes
2019 Byrnes [34] EXploring practice gaps to improve PERIoperativE Nutrition CarE (EXPERIENCE Study): a qualitative analysis of barriers to implementation of evidence-based practice guidelines Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) guidelines Australia Clinic or hospital Qualitative Yes No
2017 Conway [35] The barriers and facilitators that indigenous health workers experience in their workplace and communities in providing self-management support: a multiple case study Evidence-based chronic disease self- management interventions Australia Other: Community Qualitative No Yes
2018 Edge [36] An Assets-Based Approach to Co-Producing a Culturally Adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) with African Caribbeans Diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Their Families Family Intervention psychosocial evidence-based intervention England Clinic or hospital; Community-based organization Qualitative No No
2021 Eekholm [37] ‘Stolen Time’-Delivering Nursing at the Bottom of a Hierarchy: An Ethnographic Study of Barriers and Facilitators for Evidence-Based Nursing for Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Evidence-based guidelines for nursing care

for older patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia

Denmark Clinic or hospital Qualitative Yes No
2021 Ekawati [38] Challenging the status quo: results of an acceptability and feasibility study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) management pathways in Indonesian primary care Guideline-based hypertensive disorders of pregnancy management pathways Indonesia Clinic or hospital Mixed-methods Yes No
2013 Fasula [39] Project power: Adapting an evidence-based HIV/STI prevention intervention for incarcerated women HIV/STI prevention intervention, Project Safe United States Other: Carceral facilities Qualitative Yes No
2012 Gillard [40] Informing the development of services supporting self-care for severe, long term mental health conditions: a mixed method study of community based mental health initiatives in England

Policy guidance on supporting self-care

for people with long term, severe mental

health problems

England Clinic or hospital; Community-based Organization Mixed-methods No Yes
2015 Hamdani [41] Model for Service Delivery for Developmental Disorders in Low-Income Countries

World Health Organization’s evidence-based mental health

gap intervention guide

Pakistan Other: Community Quantitative Yes No
2019 Hartmann [42] Generating CHARISMA: Development of an Intervention to Help Women Build Agency and Safety in Their Relationships While Using PrEP for HIV Prevention HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) South Africa Clinic or hospital Mixed-methods No Yes
2007 Harwood [43] Nurses’ perceptions of the impact of a renal nursing professional practice model on nursing outcomes, characteristics of practice environments and empowerment–Part I Center-level guidelines for nephrology nursing professional practice models Canada Clinic or hospital Quantitative No Yes
2015 Herepath [44] A realist analysis of hospital patient safety in Wales: applied learning for alternative contexts from a multisite case study

Three focal interventions from the 1000 Lives+ patient safety programme:

Improving Leadership for Quality Improvement, Reducing Surgical Complications and Reducing Health-care

Associated Infection

Wales Other: Community Qualitative Yes Yes
2006 Jones [45] The Building Wellness project: a case history of partnership, power sharing, and compromise Evidence-based screening, treatment, and support for depression United States School; Clinic or hospital; Community-based organization Qualitative No No
2015 Kueny [46] Facilitating the implementation of evidence- based practice through contextual support and nursing leadership Evidence-based interventions for fall prevention United States Clinic or hospital Qualitative No No
2020 Matheson [47] Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ Evidence-based interventions addressing nutrition, physical activity, tobacco use, and alcohol intake. New Zealand Clinic or hospital Qualitative No No
2013 McCalman [48] The transfer and implementation of an Aboriginal Australian wellbeing program: a grounded theory study Family Wellbeing Program focused on pathways to employment and mental health management Australia Clinic or hospital; Community-based organization Qualitative Yes Yes
2020 Mugo [49] From research to international scale-up: stakeholder engagement essential in successful design, evaluation and implementation of paediatric HIV testing intervention

The Counseling and Testing for Children

at Home intervention for pediatric index case identification for HIV

Kenya Clinic or hospital Qualitative Yes Yes
2021 O’Hara [50] Multi-level implementation factors that influence scale-up of methadone maintenance treatment in Moldovan prisons: A qualitative study Methadone maintenance treatment Moldova Other: Prison Mixed-methods No No
2022 Piat [51] Translating mental health recovery guidelines into recovery-oriented innovations: A strategy combining implementation teams and a facilitated planning process National guidelines for recovery from mental illness Canada Community-based organization; Other: publicly-funded organizations Qualitative No No
2016 Steinmo [52] Bridging the gap between pragmatic intervention design and theory: using behavioral science tools to modify an existing quality improvement program to implement “Sepsis Six” Evidence-based “Sepsis Six” guidelines to reduce mortality from sepsis England Clinic or hospital Qualitative Yes No
2009 Swendeman [53] Empowering sex workers in India to reduce vulnerability to HIV and sexually transmitted diseases Evidence-based intervention for HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention India Clinic or hospital Community-based organization; Public health departments; Other: microfinance cooperatives and political organizations Quantitative No Yes
2020 Tadaumi [54] A qualitative study of factors that influence midwives’ practice in relation to low-risk women’s oral intake in labour in Australia Evidence-based practice regarding oral food and fluid intake during labor Australia Clinic or hospital Qualitative No No
2013 Turner [55] Barriers to and enablers of evidence-based practice in perinatal care in the SEA-ORCHID project Evidence-based clinical practices to support perinatal healthcare Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia Clinic or hospital Qualitative Yes No
2020 Worum [56] Physiotherapists’ perceptions of challenges facing evidence-based practice and the importance of environmental empowerment in fall prevention in the municipality - a qualitative study Evidence-based fall prevention programs Norway Clinic or hospital Qualitative No Yes