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Table 2 Study characteristics for all included studies *two studies are missing from this table, apologies for this and need to be added in these - are Norman 1987 and cooke 2005

From: Describing the evidence-base for research engagement by health care providers and health care organisations: a scoping review

Author name, Year

Country

Quantitative/Qualitative

Study type

Study design

Setting and participants

Abbot 2005 [34]

England

Qualitative

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Primary care practices, practice nurses

Akerjordet 2012 [35]

Norway

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

University hospital, nurse managers

Albert 2015 [36]

USA

NA

NA

Program description

Midwest healthcare system, nurses

Albert & Siedlecki 2008 [37]

United States

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

 

Alcock 1989 [38]

Canada

Qualitative

NA

Commentary

Clinical

Armstrong 2009 [39]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical

Aronson 2011 [40]

England

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific

Axon 2012 [41]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Hospital, hospital medicine researchers

Babl 2006 [42]

Australia

New Zealand

NA

NA

Commentary

Network, Paediatric Emergency Research

Bacigalupo 2006 [43]

England

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Primary care trust, general practice staff, PCT employed staff, social care staff

Bailey 2006 [44]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Community, Aboriginal health workers

Bakken 2009 [45]

United States

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Ambulatory Care Network Sites, community clinicians

Balakas 2011 [46]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Hospital, nurses

Barnsteiner 2010 [47]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Hospital, nurses

Beeson 2014 [48]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Community health centres, community clinicians

Berger 2015 [49]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Healthcare system, nurses

Black 2016 [50]

Canada

NA

NA

Program description

Healthcare organisation, nurses and allied health professionals

Blevins 2010 [51]

United States

Mixed methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Clinical Partnership Program at the Veterans Healthcare Administration

Bogo 1992 [52]

Canada

NA

 

Program description

Healthcare settings and university, social work faculty and healthcare staff

Boydell 2012 [53]

Canada

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Paediatric care settings, physician researchers working in paediatrics

Bragg 2011 [54]

United States

Quantitative

Intervention

Repeat cross sectional

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), staff within the centres/participating in the program broadly

Brauer 2007 [55]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Physiotherapy Rehab Network, physiotherapists

Brewer 2009 [56]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Tertiary care hospital, nursing staff

Brown 1994 [57]

Canada

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical more broadly, occupational therapy

Bryar 2003 [58]

United Kingdom

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Primary care, nurses, midwives, GPs, practice managers, health promotion specialists

Bullock 2012 [59]

England

Qualitative

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Healthcare organisation, healthcare managers

Bullock 2013 [60]

England

Qualitative

Intervention

Post intervention assessment

 

Callard 2012 [61]

England

NA

NA

Commentary

Healthcare broadly, none specific

Castonguay 2011 [62]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

University counselling centres, counsellors

Castonguay 2015 [63]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Psychology training clinic, none specific

Chan 2010 [64]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Clinical setting, nurse researchers

Chapman 2005 [65]

Australia

Quantitative

Intervention

Pre-post non-controlled study

Emergency department, health campus, nursing staff

Chassie 1990 [66]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Hospital, nursing staff

Chester 2007 [67]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific, nursing staff

Cleary 2010 [68]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Mental health settings more broadly, none specific

Cluver 2014 [69]

United States

Quantitative

Intervention

Prospective

Psychiatric setting more broadly, medical students

Cole 2014 [70]

Canada

Qualitative

Intervention

Retrospective reviews

Healthcare setting more broadly, none specific

Cooke 2005 [71]

England

NA

NA

Cross-sectional

Research development support unit

Cooke 2014 [72]

England

NA

NA

Program description

CLARHC South Yorkshire, none specific

Cooke 2015 [73]

England

Quantitative

Descriptive

Program description

CLARHC North of England

Corchon 2011 [74]

Spain

Quantitative

Intervention

Quasi-experimental

Hospital, nurses

Currey 2011 [75]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Clinical, clinical nurse research consultant

Currie 2013 [76]

United Kingdom

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Network: Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs), senior managers, directors, academics, healthcare practitioners

Dawson 1998 [77]

Canada

NA

NA

Program description

Long term care facilities, none specific

Denis 2003 [78]

Canada

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Network: Social research council, researchers and practitioners

Devon 2013 [79]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Emergency department, physicians, postdoctoral nurses, principal investigators

Dickinson 2017 [80]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific

Downie 2001 [81]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Hospital and university, nursing

Dupin 2014 [82]

France

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Teaching hospitals, nurses

Ekeroma 2015 [83]

Pacific Islands

Quantitative

Intervention

Pre-post non-controlled study

Network: clinicians and stakeholders, obstetricians, gynaecologists, physicians, nurses, midwives

Ekeroma 2016 [84]

New Zealand

Quantitative

Measure

Cross-sectional

Reproductive health services in Pacific countries, nurses and doctors

Embi 2013 [85]

United States

NA

NA

Program description (proposed paradigm)

Healthcare broadly, none specific

Engler 2014 [86]

United states

NA

NA

Program description

National Institute of Nursing/Doctoral nursing programs, nurse doctoral students

Farmer 2002 [87]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Primary healthcare, GPs and primary healthcare practitioners

Fetherstonhaugh 2008 [88]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Sub-acute healthcare facility, nurse students

Finch 2013 [89]

Australia

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Public healthcare workforce, speech pathologist

Fitzgerald 2003 [90]

United states

NA

NA

Program description (description of study)

Paediatric intensive care units, family of patients and staff nurse

Friesen 2014 [91]

Australia

NA

NA

Cross-sectional

Primary and community health services, hospital clinicians

Gagliardi 2009 [92]

Canada

Qualitative

Descriptive

Protocol

Faculties of nursing and medicine, physician and non-physician health service researchers

Gagliardi 2016 [93]

Canada

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Healthcare delivery and healthcare monitoring organisation, researchers, clinicians, managers

Giles 2006 [94]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

The Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health / Aboriginal health Services, Indigenous people and communities

Gillibrand 2002 [95]

United Kingdom

NA

Descriptive

Program description

Clinical Networks for nursing research, nurse practitioners

Govoni 1997 [96]

United States

NA

NA

Case study

Clinical settings, clinical nurse specialists and staff nurses

Happell 2004 [97]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Psychiatric/mental health field, psychiatric nurses

Happell 2005 [98]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Hospitals, nurses

Harrison 2005 [99]

United Kingdom

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Primary care trusts (PCT), staff working directly or in partnership, GPs, primary care nurses on contract to PCT

Hauck 2015 [100]

Australia

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Hospital, graduate midwives

Heinemann 2005 [101]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Federal agencies, none specific

Heintzman 2014 [102]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Healthcare settings/practice based research networks, community practitioners

Henderson 2009 [103]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Complex tertiary referral hospitals, nurse leaders

Hinchcliff 2014 [104]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Health services more broadly, none specific

Hiscock 2014 [105]

Australia

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Hospitals, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals

Hoeijmakers 2013 [106]

The Netherlands

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Prospective cohort

Academic Collaboration Centres for Public Health, students, science practitioners, management

Holden 2012 [107

Australia

Quantitative

Intervention

Non-randomised matched-pair trial

Primary health care, multidisciplinary primary healthcare teams

Holden 2012 [108]

Australia

Quantitative

Measure

Prospective

Queensland health, allied health workers

Holge-Hazelton 2016 [109]

Denmark

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Regional hospital, advanced nurse practitioners

Hopps 1994 [110]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Commentary

Nursing broadly, nurses

Hulcombe 2014 [111]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Health services/public sector health services broadly, health practitioners broadly

Hurst 2003 [112]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

cross-sectional

Health organisations, healthcare professionals

Ishiguro 2017 [113]

Japan

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Children’s hospital, representative from hospitals

Jackson 2007 [114]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Commentary

Research networks, nurses in general

Jackson 2015 [115]

Australia, UK

NA

NA

Commentary

Network, academics, consumers, clinicians, service organisations

Jamerson 2011 [116]

USA

NA

NA

Program description

Area nursing schools, nursing students

Jamerson 2012 [117]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Network: nursing research society, nurse research facilitators

Janssen 2013 [118]

NZ

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Physio department of rehab hospital, physical therapists

Jennings 2013 [119]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific

Johnson 2014 [120]

Australia

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Cancer services, health professionals

Jordan 2015 [121]

United Kingdom

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

National Institute for Health CLAHRC, members of CLAHRC

Joubert 2015 [122]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Oncology social work department, social workers

Jowett 2000 [123]

United Kingdom

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Primary care, GPs in service practice

Keefe 1998 [124]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Denver Collaborative Research Network, nurses

Keenan 2000 [125]

Canada

NA

NA

Commentary

Critical care research network/healthcare broadly, healthcare workers

Koerner 2014 [126]

United States

NA

NA

Program description

Network: collaborative projects with practitioners and researchers, clinicians and researchers

Kuehnle 2009 [127]

Switzerland

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Swiss national MD-PhD program, former and current students

Lach 1980 [128]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

College health, students

Ledley 1993 [129]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Children’s hospital, Paediatrician residents

Legris 2000 [130]

Canada

Quantitative

Descriptive

Retrospective study

Clinical in-patient units, Multidisciplinary practitioners

Lester 1998 [131]

United Kingdom

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

UK departments of general practice, practitioners

Long 2014 [132]

Australia

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Translational research networks (TRNs), members

Loomis 1980 [133]

USA

NA

NA

Program description

Network: collaborative research program, nurse researchers and nurse clinicians

MacPhee 2009 [134]

Canada

NA

NA

Program description (describing a model)

Large urban community hospital and nursing facility of a local university, first line nurse leaders and educators

Mainous 1995 [135]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

General or family practice, general internal medicine or paediatrics, primary care physicians

Mays 2013 [136]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Practice based research networks, representatives of public health organisations

McAleavey 2015 [137]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

University and college counselling centres, counsellors, administrators and researchers

McIntyre 2011 [138]

Australia

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Academic departments of general practice and rural health

McKee 2017 [139]

Ireland

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Cross-sectional (post intervention only)

Acute urban hospital, advanced nursing staff, nurse researchers and academic partners

McWilliam 1997 [140]

Canada

NA

NA

Program description

Network: research partnership

Miller 2009 [141]

Canada

NA

NA

Program description

Health Authority, organisation members of health

Misso 2016 [142]

Australia

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Protocol

Clinical setting, health professionals

Mitchell 2015 [143]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Commentary

University College London Hospitals, nurses and midwives

Moore 1997 [144]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical settings, physiotherapists

Morris 2017 [145]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Mental health services, occupational therapists

Mortenius 2015 [146]

Sweden

Qualitative

Descriptive

Prospective

Child care centre, primary care staff

Murphy 2015 [147]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Healthcare broadly, doctor of nursing practice-prepared and doctor of nursing philosophy-prepared nurses, students and faculty

Naik 2015 [148]

United States

Qualitative

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Primary care settings, health services research team, primary care community and US VA health system

Nelson 2007 [149]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical practice settings, clinical nurse specialist

Nichols 1997 [150]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Commentary

Healthcare settings, none specific

Norton 2011 [151]

England

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Local Research Network, chief pharmacists

Norman 1987 [152]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Nurses

Nutting 1996 [153]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Primary care practice/practice based research networks, family physicians

Pager 2012 [154]

Australia

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Queensland Health, allied health professionals

Paget 2014 [155]

Australia

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Tertiary children’s hospital, doctors, nurses and allied health professionals

Paget 2017 [156]

Australia

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Tertiary children’s hospital, paediatric clinicians

Perron 2016 [157]

Canada

Quantitative

Intervention

Post intervention assessment

Rehabilitation research network, paramedic clinicians

Pikethly 2003 [158]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Program description

Primary care research and development network/primary care, clinical staff

Pomeroy 2003 [159]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Stroke association therapy network unit, clinicians

Queensland Health 2016 [160]

Australia

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Queensland Health sites, clinicians, team leaders, professional heads

Rait 2002 [161]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

NHS organisations, NHS staff

Reay 2013 [162]

United Kingdom

NA

NA

Program description (model)

None specific

Redman-MacLaren 2010 [163]

Soloman Islands (reporting)/Australia (written)

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Cross-sectional

Adventist hospital, health professionals

Reijneveld 2009 [164]

Netherlands

NA

NA

Commentary

Public health practice

Rickels 1977 [165]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Family practice, private practice research group

Ried 2005 [166]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Primary health care, practitioners

Rosenberg 1999 [167]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Physician scientists

Sahs 2016 [168]

United States

Qualitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Hospital based outpatient clinic, clinicians and administrators

Schwartz 1987 [169]

England

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific, academic pharmacists

Short 2010 [170]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical setting broadly, emergency department

Short 2009 [171]

Australia

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Hospital, doctors, nurses and allied health professionals

Skinner 2014 [172]

Australia

NA

NA

Commentary

Tertiary hospital, physiotherapists

Smolowitz 1997 [173]

United States

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Acute care facilities, nursing schools, staff

Soper 2015 [174]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Intervention

Prospective cohort

Partnership between universities and local NHS organisations, none specific

Stiller 2016 [175]

Australia

Quantitative

Descriptive

Cross sectional

 NA

Stockton 2010 [176]

USA

NA

NA

Commentary

Clinical, psychotherapists

Tanner 2002 [177]

United Kingdom

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

NHS Trust, research active clinical nurses

Teal 2012 [178]

United States

Qualitative

Measure

Cross-sectional

Community practice, physicians, administration and support staff

The Academy of Medical Sciences [179]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

None specific

Tierney 1991 [180]

Scotland

Mixed Methods

Descriptive

Prospective cohort

Nurses and University Nursing Research Unit, nurses

Walshe 2013 [181]

England

NA

NA

Commentary

Health research broadly, none specific

Willson 2010 [182]

USA

NA

NA

Program description

Network: Collaborative Paediatric Critical Care Research Network, physicians and researchers

Wolfenden 2017 [183]

Australia

NA

NA

Program description

Population Health, researchers and health service staff

Woolf 2008 [184]

USA

NA

NA

Commentary

NA

Yawn 2002 [185]

United States

NA

NA

Commentary

Family medicine