Table 2 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Context /setting:

Health care focus and acute care setting

No health care focus, non-acute care setting

Level of measure:

Minimum one organization measure

No discussion/measures/outcomes at organizational level

Addresses a knowledge translation innovation:

Yes

No

Has evidence of complexity:

Multiple stakeholders

Involves actions of multiple people/teams

Chains or steps in a process

Non-liner processes

Embedded in social systems

Prone to modification or change

Does not meet complexity criteria

Location:

Developed world

Stable health care system-comparable to Canadian system

acute care

Developing world, health care context without stable health care infrastructure

Intervention types:

Multi, program or complex innovation(s)

Single or simple innovations/or technology product

Study/publication types:

Empirical, theoretical, expert opinion, reviews

Conference proceedings, books and book chapters, unpublished work

Accessibility:

English language, retrievable

Non-English, non-retrievable

Addresses factors of interest:

Context, complexity and process

Does not address context, complexity and process