Electronic databases (inception until November 22, 2012) |
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects |
• Health Technology Assessment Database |
• MEDLINE (through PubMed) |
• Scopus |
• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) |
• Excerpta Medica (EMBASE) |
• Web of Science |
• Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO) |
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) |
• Dissertation Abstracts International |
Other sources |
• Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) Register was searched by the EPOC Information Specialist and Trials Search Coordinator (May 22, 2013) |
• Hand searches of the references lists of included studies |
• Hand search of following key journals for the 12-month period prior to the date the electronic database search was conducted: Implementation Science, BioMed Central Health Services Research, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, and Nursing Research |
• Open Grey (http://www.opengrey.eu/) |
• KT Plus (http://plus.mcmaster.ca/kt/), |
• Relevant conference proceedings, abstracts, and reports from the following were searched on June 14, 2013: |
â—‹ the Research Transfer Network of Alberta (https://web.archive.org/web/20140325202611/http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca/rtna/conference.php) |
â—‹ KT Canada (http://ktclearinghouse.ca/ktcanada), Knowledge Utilization Colloquia (http://www.kusp.ualberta.ca/en/KnowledgeUtilizationColloquia.aspx) |
â—‹ National Institutes of Health Science of Dissemination and Implementation conferences (http://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/translation/dissemination_and_implementation) |
â—‹ Joanna Briggs Institute (http://joannabriggs.org/) |