Table 2.
Study characteristics (N =26)
| Country | Sample size (n) |
Percentage | Method | Sample size (n) |
Percentage | Study design | Sample size (n) |
Percentage | Healthcare settinga | Sample size (n) | Percentage | Innovationa | Sample size (n) |
Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 7 | 27 | Quantitative | 18 | 69 | Cross-sectional | 1 | 4 | Acute care | 7 | 27 | Assessment | 4 | 15 |
| Canada | 8 | 31 | Qualitative | 3 | 12 | Formative evaluation | 1 | 4 | Community | 7 | 27 | Intervention | 24 | 92 |
| Denmark | 1 | 4 | Mixed methods | 5 | 19 | Hermeneutic phenomenology | 1 | 4 | Home health | 2 | 8 | Knowledge | 10 | 38 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 12 | Longitudinal | 1 | 4 | Inpatient rehabilitationb | 17 | 65 | ||||||
| Sweden | 1 | 4 | Participatory action research | 1 | 4 | Long-term care | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Uganda | 1 | 4 | Pre–post | 13 | 50 | Outpatientc | 6 | 23 | ||||||
| The UK | 2 | 8 | Process evaluation | 4 | 15 | Skilled nursing | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| The USA | 3 | 12 | Prospective cohort | 1 | 4 | Otherd | 3 | 12 | ||||||
| Randomized controlled trial | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Retrospective cohort | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Time series | 1 | 4 |
N = 26 unless specified otherwise
Percentages were rounded up or down to the nearest whole number.
a Responses are not mutually exclusive
b Inpatient rehabilitation includes freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (or facilities) and units and was identified in studies as IRF, acute rehabilitation, rehabilitation hospital, or rehabilitation center
c Outpatient includes all outpatient clinics regardless of specialty (e.g., outpatient hand therapy clinic)
d Other includes studies that listed “other” as a healthcare setting or a study involved disseminating knowledge to practitioners working in any healthcare setting, and education was provided at an offsite location or nonphysical environment (e.g., workshop, or online training)