Identifying and understanding benefits associated with return-on-investment from large-scale healthcare Quality Improvement programmes: an integrative systematic literature review

Table 2 Eligibility criteria and selected article types

Eligibility	Outcomes	ROI concepts	Level of analysis
	QI Effectiveness or process outcomes e.g., goals achieved	Cost-effectiveness	Organisation
		Cost–benefit
	QI economic outcomes e.g., savings	Value
	Clinical outcomes e.g., symptoms	Benefits
	Organisational outcomes e.g., development	QI outcomes/consequences
	Short-term, intermediate, long-term, and impacts		Type of literature
			Empirical and non-empirical reports
			Conceptual and Grey literature
Included	Large scale complexity, depth, and breadth
	At least one QI method used
	At least three organisational outcomes
	At least two organisational departments engaged
Excluded	Articles where one department was engaged, two or less organisational outcomes were reported, and pre-prints

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