Strategies to promote evidence use for health programme improvement: learning from the experiences of embedded implementation research teams in Latin America and the Caribbean

Table 2 Number of interview respondents by category per country

Respondent category	Bolivia	Colombia	DR
Research team
Decision-maker co-PI	3^a	2^a	2^a
Researcher co-PI	None	None	2^a
External health system stakeholders
Public sector (e.g. Ministry of Health/government)	7	11	5
Other^b	n/a	1	4

^aIndicates that at least one follow-up interview was conducted; note that in round three of data collection, it was not possible to interview the two co-investigators on the Bolivia team nor the two researchers on the DR team
^b“Other” includes actors in the health system that are not formally affiliated with the national Ministry of Health, such as private health insurance companies, professional associations, nongovernmental organizations; composition varied according to context

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