Table 2. Overview of Suggestions for Modifications of Framework, Criteria or Sub-criteria Based on FGDs and KIIs .
| Criteria and Sub-criteria | Suggestions for Modifications of Framework, Criteria or Sub-criteria, Based on Statements in One or More FGDs and/or KIIs | |||
| Wording and Definition | Missing Aspects | Order and Grouping | Overlap, Redundancy and Delineation | |
| Balance of health benefits and harms | FGD | |||
| Efficacy or effectiveness on health of individuals | FGD | FGD | ||
| Efficacy or effectiveness on health of population | ||||
| Patients’/beneficiaries’ values in relation to health outcomes | KII, FGD | KII | KII | |
| Safety-risk-profile of intervention | FGD | |||
| Broader positive or negative health-related impacts | ||||
| Human rights and socio-cultural acceptability | FGD | FGD | ||
| Accordance with universal human rights standards | KII, FGD | |||
| Socio-cultural acceptability to beneficiaries and those | KII, FGD | KII | KII, FGD | |
| Socio-cultural acceptability of intervention to the public and other stakeholders | KII, FGD | FGD | ||
| Impact on autonomy of concerned stakeholders | ||||
| Intrusiveness of intervention | FGD | FGD | ||
| Equity, equality and non-discrimination | FGD | KII, FGD | FGD | |
| Impact on health equality and/or health equity | ||||
| Distribution of benefits and harms of intervention | ||||
| Affordability of intervention | KII | FGD | KII | |
| Accessibility of intervention | ||||
| Lack of a suitable alternative | ||||
| Societal implications | KII, FGD | FGD | ||
| Social impact | KII, FGD | KII | ||
| Environmental impact | KII, FGD | |||
| Financial and economic considerations | ||||
| Financial impact | KII | FGD | FGD | |
| Impact on economy | FGD | |||
| Ratio of costs and benefits | FGD | |||
| Feasibility and health system considerations | ||||
| Legislation | KII | FGD | ||
| Leadership and governance | FGD | FGD | ||
| Interaction with and impact on health system | FGD | FGD | KII | |
| Need for, usage of and impact on health workforce and human resources | FGD | |||
| Need for, usage of and impact on infrastructure | FGD | FGD | ||
| Quality of evidence (meta-criterion) | ||||
| Suggestions regarding missing criteria | FGD | |||
| Suggestions regarding the order of criteria | FGD | |||
Abbreviations: FGD, focus group discussion; KII, key informant interview.
An expanded version of this table is provided as a supplement. Supplementary file 4 details the suggested changes to the WHO-INTEGRATE framework based on KII and FGD, and Supplementary file 5 provides exemplary quotes based on the FGDs.