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 |