Table 4.

Mostly transferable measures identified in studies of health policy implementation (n = 15)

Tool name	Number of items	Development Author, year	Empirical use Author, year Setting, country	Implementation outcomes and determinants assessed	Pragmatic PAPERS scorea	Psychometric properties assessed
Adaptations of Evidence-Based Practices	9	Stirman et al. 2013 [44]	Lau and Brookman-Frazee 2016 [45] Mental health, USA	Fidelity/compliance, adaptability	12	Norms
Creative Climate Questionnaire	10	Ekvall 1996 [46]	Lövgren 2002 [47] Healthcare, Sweden	Organizational culture and climate	13	Normsb
Job Control Scale	22	Dwyer and Ganster 1991 [48]	Condon-Paoloni 2015 [49] Nutrition, Australia	Organizational culture/climate	12	Norms, internal consistency
Organizational Climate Measure	82	Patterson et al. 2005 [50]	Lau and Brookman-Frazee 2016 [45] Mental health, USA	Organizational culture/climate	10	Normsb
Organizational Social Context Measurement System	105	Glisson et al. 2012 [51]	Beidas et al. 2013 [52] Mental or behavioral health, USA	Organizational culture/climate, communication of policy	5	Norms, structural validity
Perceived Organizational Support Survey	8	Eisenberger et al. 1997 [53]	Eby et al. 2013 [54] Tobacco, USA	Organizational culture/climate	12	Norms, structural validity, internal consistency
Pharmaceutical Policies Survey	17	Vogler et al. 2016 [55]	Vogler et al. 2016 [55] Healthcare, Europe	Costs of implementation	11	Norms
Planning for Change Survey	4	Wanberg 2000 [56]	Eby et al. 2013 [54] Tobacco, USA	Organizational culture/climate	12	Norms, structural validity, internal consistency
Policy Coalition Evaluation Tool	15	Hardy et al. 2013 [57]	Hardy et al. 2013 [57] Community nutrition, USA	Fidelity/compliance, sustainability, readiness, organizational culture/climate, actor relationships/networks	9	Not reported
Policy Empowerment Index	12	Gavriilidis and Östergren 2012 [58]	Gavriilidis and Östergren 2012 [58] Hospitals/clinics, traditional medicine policy, South Africa	Adaptability, readiness, actor relationships, political will for implementation, target population characteristics affecting implementation	16	Not reported
Policy Implementation Barometer	10	Hongoro et al. 2018 [59]	Hongoro et al. 2018 [59] Access to care, Uganda	Appropriateness, readiness to implement	11	Norms
Policy Readiness and Stage of Change Needs Assessment	130	Roeseler et al. 2016 [60]	Roeseler et al. 2016 [60] Tobacco, USA	Adoption, fidelity/compliance	13	Norms
Rehabilitation Policy Questionnaire	7	Brämberg et al. 2015 [61]	Brämberg et al. 2015 [61] Hospitals/clinics, Sweden	Acceptability, adoption, fidelity/compliance, penetration, readiness	11	Norms
Rütten’s Health Policy Questionnaire	24	Rütten et al. 2003 [62]	Rütten et al. 2003 [62] Cancer, tobacco, physical activity, Europe (6 countries)	Acceptability, cost, org culture/climate, readiness to implement, political will implementation	15	Normsb
Veteran’s Administration All Employee Survey	14	Smith et al. 2017 [63]	Smith et al. 2017 [63] Mental health, USA	Organizational culture/climate	11	Normsb

Mostly transferable measures are defined here as those in which ≥ 75% of items can readily be used in multiple settings without change or by changing only the referent (i.e., policy name, setting)

^aPragmatic PAPERS score—Psychometric and Pragmatic Evidence Rating Scale [11, 41, 42], five domains assessed: brevity (score based on number of items), language simplicity, burden/ease of interpretation of scoring, and training burden, total possible score 20, higher numbers indicate greater ease to use the measure

^bAdditional subscale level psychometric properties were reported