Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria and databases

Inclusion	Exclusion	Database	Total
Primary data-based studies (not excluding literature reviews)	Reports, conferences or discussions, including unpublished manuscripts, books, tapes, and electronic media	EMBASE	382
Studies have to be explicit to ‘rapid implementation’ within implementation science	Publications were excluded if they were non-English articles	MEDLINE	380
Studies were only included if they specify a hospital or health related context		SCOPUS	996
Studies included regardless of methodology		WEB OF SCIENCE	684

* Language limiter was set to English language for the database search