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Table 1 Criteria for considering records or reports for this review

From: Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review

Criteria

Inclusion

Exclusion

Question related to the criteria

Type of report

Original paper

Research report

Evaluation report

Knowledge synthesis

Government document

Editorial

Commentary

Opinion letter

Protocol

Is this empirical research using quantitative or qualitative methods?

Aim of study

Development of a tool (e.g. a guide, framework, questionnaire, factors, facilitators or barriers)

Assessment of one or more measurement (or psychometric) properties of a tool

Assessment of the interpretability of a tool

The study did not present or describe a guide, framework, questionnaire, factors, facilitators or barriers (hereafter referred to as “tool”)

Does the study present the development, validation or interpretability of a tool?

Aim of the tool

Tool aiming to assess the scalability of an innovation (i.e. potential or readiness for scale-up, for spread, for transfer, for diffusion or for system wide implementation)

The tool is not intended to be used for assessing the scalability of an innovation

Does the tool aim to evaluate the scalability of an innovation?

Setting

Any health context

The tool is not intended to be used for an innovation in the field of health

Is the tool intended to be used for innovation in the field of health?