Table 2 Eligibility criteria

Intervention type

∙ Studies relate to implementation or implementation science or complex interventions including at least one model or framework

∙ Studies do not relate to implementation or implementation science or complex interventions

Publication type

∙ Reviews

∙ Books

∙ Journal articles

∙ Gray literature

∙ editorials

∙ commentaries

∙ poster presentations

∙ protocol papers

Study type

∙ conceptual papers

∙ theoretical papers

∙ reviews

∙ concept analysis

∙ Case study

∙ Qualitative study evaluation with conceptual elements

∙ Quantitative study evaluation with conceptual elements

∙ Method papers

∙ Qualitative study or evaluation without conceptual elements

∙ Quantitative study or evaluation without conceptual elements

Types of models and frameworks

∙ significantly modified or updated an older framework;

∙ inductive formulation of a new framework from two or more older frameworks;

∙ statistical models

∙ disease models

∙ reports of an existing framework without modification

Discipline

∙ Health or education or international development or social services

∙ None human science

Study outcomes

∙ No limitation

Publication dates

∙ Subsequent to first MRC guideline on complex interventions (2000)

Publication language

∙ English

∙ Not English