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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Organizational contextual features that influence the implementation of evidence-based practices across healthcare settings: a systematic integrative review

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Articles were included if they:

Articles were excluded if they:

 Published in a peer-reviewed journal

 Were outside the healthcare domain

 Investigated contextual features at the organizational level as a primary or secondary study objective

 Did not investigate a KT initiative

 Were editorials, opinions, conceptual papers, discussions, or textbooks

 Focused on implementation (including adoption, uptake, and research utilization)

 Were reported in languages other than English

Empirical studies of all design types;

 Were published since 2005, to capture a wave of research on organizational context over the past 12 years [78,79,80]

 Did not report on any organizational contextual feature in the findings and discussion sections of the published report