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Table 5 Summary of rubric and criteria revisions after each development phase

From: Establishing evidence criteria for implementation strategies in the US: a Delphi study for HIV services

Initial review and Interviews

Delphi Round 1

Delphi Round 2

Piloting

• Initial proposed domains: overall effectiveness, study design quality, implementation outcomes, equity impact, strategy specification, & bundled strategies

• Initial proposed evidence levels: best practice, promising, emerging, undetermined, & non-recommended strategy

• Initial proposed criteria for each domain

• Dropped overall effectiveness domain

• Split study design quality domain into study design and rigor and limitations domain

• Revised equity domain description

• Combined emerging and undetermined evidence levels and renamed as more evidence needed

• Reduced criteria across all domains at all evidence-levels

• Confirmed domains

• Revised equity domain descriptions

• Confirmed evidence levels

• Reduced criteria across all domains at all evidence-levels

• Revised application process

• Revised application process

• Revised criteria definitions