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Table 2 i-PARIHS Innovation, Recipients, and Context Constructs and Sub-Constructs

From: Using i-PARIHS to assess implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist: an international qualitative study

Innovation

Recipients

Context

•Underlying knowledge sources

•Clarity

•Degree of fit with existing practice and values

•Usability

•Relative advantage

•Trialability

•Observable results

•Motivation

•Values and beliefs

•Goals

•Skills and knowledge

•Time, resources, support

•Local opinion leaders

•Collaboration and teamwork

•Existing networks

•Power and authority

•Presence of boundaries

Local Level:

 •Formal and informal leadership support

 •Culture

 •Past experience with innovation and change

 •Mechanisms for embedding change

 •Evaluation and feedback processes

 •Learning environment

Organizational Level:

 •Organizational priorities

 •Senior leadership and management support

 •Culture

 •Structure and systems

 •History of innovation and change

 •Absorptive capacity

 •Learning networks

External Health System Level:

 •Policy drivers and priorities

 •Incentives and mandates

 •Regulatory frameworks

 •Environmental (in)stability

 •Inter-organizational networks and relationships