Table 1 Summary of eligibility criteria for the review
Criteria | Included | Excluded |
|---|---|---|
Population | Healthcare staff in eligible context. Includes clinicians, managers, and administrators | Non-healthcare staff, or healthcare staff based in an ineligible context |
Context | Acute, sub-acute, primary, community health, and residential aged care settings | Non-healthcare settings (e.g., workplaces, schools) |
Regional and rural areas (e.g., MMM 2–5) | Major cities/metropolitan areas (e.g. MMM 1) & remote areas (e.g., MMM 6–7); with regional and/or rural areas not separated in analysis | |
High-income countries, according to The World Bank rankings [23] (excluded at full-text stage only) | Low- and middle-income countries (excluded at full-text stage only) | |
Intervention of focus | Healthcare interventions encompassing direct patient interventions (e.g., clinical or therapeutic practices or programs) or interventions with an intended benefit on health outcomes or quality of care (e.g., guidelines, processes, models of care) | Non-healthcare interventions/interventions with a primary focus on administrative outcomes, rather than quality of care or health outcomes. (e.g., management interventions, staff rostering interventions, referral only interventions) |
Outcomes | Healthcare staff-reported barriers and facilitators to the implementation process. Could be collected during any stage of implementation (i.e., pre-implementation, during implementation, or post-implementation) | Not healthcare staff-reported barriers and facilitators to implementation (i.e., patient-reported barriers) |
Publication type | Original research, including case-studies, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method research | Theses, conference abstracts, reviews, commentaries, editorials, published books, protocols |
English language full-text articles only | Articles not published in English | |
Publication date | Published from 1 January 2000-August 29 2023 | Published prior to 1 January 2000 |