Table 1 Characteristics of the included studies
Year published | Title | Objective | Study design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Prioritizing Barriers to Successful Implementation of Hospital Information Systems [15] | To prioritize barriers to hospital information system implementation | Cross-sectional analytic-descriptive/questionnaire | 24 participants; eight persons were clinical supervisors, seven were hospital managers, and nine were information technology department administrators |
2013 | Barriers of Clinical Practice Guidelines Development and Implementation in Developing Countries: A Case Study in Iran [16] | To identify the barriers to establishing production systems and applying the guidelines | Qualitative study with a thematic framework, in-depth interview, semi-structured, focus group discussion (FGD) | 12 in-depth interviews with healthcare policy-makers and decision-makers, experts with previous experience in the production and adaptation of clinical practice guidelines, and evidence-based medicine education and development experts. FGD: 11 participants comprising healthcare policy-makers, managers, decision-makers |
2014 | Development of Evidence-Based Health Policy Documents in Developing Countries: A case of Iran [17] | To examine the barriers and facilitators of developing evidence-based health policy documents from the perspective of their producers in a developing country | Qualitative study with a framework analysis approach, semi-structured interviews, face-to-face interview, theory-based | 23 producers of evidence-based policy documents in the MOHME |
2014 | Organizational Factors that Affect the Implementation of Information Technology: Perspectives of Middle Managers in Iran [18] | To find and review the organizational factors affecting information technology implementation in teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences | Cross-sectional descriptive, structured questionnaire | 110 middle managers |
2011 | National policy-makers speak out: are researchers giving them what they need? [19] | The overall goal of this pilot study was to understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards research, and towards using research to inform health policy across a spectrum of countries | Semi-structured, in-depth interviews, using a thematic-analysis approach | 83 policy decision-makers in Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Malawi, Oman, and Singapore |
2010 | 'Linking research to action' in Iran: Two decades after integration of the Health Ministry and the medical universities [20] | To examine the impact of integration of the health ministry and medical universities on “linking research to action” or “knowledge translation” | A qualitative study, a thematic framework, in-depth interview, FGDs | 18 in-depth interviews and 10 FGDs with different stakeholders ranging from researchers, policy-makers, and service providers in medical and non-medical groups. In-depth interviews were held with policy-makers and decision-makers, and FGDs were held with researchers and practitioners |
2008 | Knowledge translation for research utilization: Design of a knowledge translation model at Tehran University of Medical Sciences [21] | To generate a model for knowledge translation in knowledge-producing units or organizations doing research | A narrative review (systematic reviews) and FGDs | 650 articles and reports were reviewed. FGD: 23 researchers and decision-makers, ~10 researchers of medical universities, 5 managers of research institutes, 5 policy-makers from the MOHME, and 3 journal editors-in-chief, in three groups |
2015 | Implementation of Hepatitis Information Management System in Iran [22] | To design and implement an electronic hepatitis information management system to approach the mentioned limitations | Applied/developmental | Not reported |
2014 | How can we establish more successful knowledge networks in developing countries? Lessons learnt from knowledge networks in Iran [23] | To find the strengths and weaknesses of knowledge networks and to assess their effectiveness in Iran | Qualitative and quantitative, semi-structured, in-depth interviews, framework approach. The social network analysis approach was used to analyse effectiveness | In the qualitative section: 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with network directors and secretaries from 10 networks. In the quantitative section: research council members of six knowledge networks |
2016 | Stakeholder involvement in health technology assessment at national level: A study from Iran[24] | To evaluate the opinions of stakeholders on their roles in the HTA programme and to determine both the barriers and the facilitators in their organizations to help increase their collaboration in the HTA programme | Semi-structured interviews and policy dialogue A questionnaire The framework approach | 10 representatives and 21 individuals participated in the policy dialogue |
2016 | Health information management system for elderly health sector: A qualitative study in Iran [25] | To investigate the current status of the health information management system in the field of geriatric health in Iran | Qualitative study A data collection form observed and reviewed by the researcher, interviewing experts, and faculty members, framework analysis | 10 experts, managers, and faculty members |