Table 3 Quality assessment of the included studies
Study title | Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) for assessing the quality of qualitative researches (yes/no/can’t tell) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Was there a clear statement of the aims of the research? | Is a qualitative methodology appropriate? | Was the research design appropriate to address the aims of the research? (Appropriate research design) | Was the recruitment strategy appropriate to the aims of the research? (Sampling) | Were the data collected in a way that addressed the research issue? (Data collection) | Has the relationship between researcher and Participants been adequately considered? (Reflexivity) | Have ethical issues been taken into consideration? (Ethical Issues) | Was the data analysis sufficiently rigorous? (Data Analysis) | Is there a clear statement of findings? (Findings) | How valuable is the research? (Value of the research) | |
Public Health Decision-Makers’ informational Needs and Preferences for Receiving Research Evidence | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Challenging Evidence-based Decision-making: A Hypothetical Case Study about Return to Work | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | No | Yes | Can’t tell | Can’t tell | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes |
Factors Affecting Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Health Departments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes |
Organizational impact of evidence-informed decision making training initiatives: a case study comparison of two approaches | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tools to support evidence-informed public health decision making | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Evidence-based Management in Practice: Opening up the Decision Process, Decision-maker and Context Evidence-Based | No | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Perception of Nursing Middle Managers about the Evidence-Based Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Evidence-based management of Caribbean health systems: barriers and opportunities | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes |
An Evidence-Based Framework for Evidence-Based Management in Healthcare Organizations: A Delphi Study | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Evidence-Based Management Competency Model for Managers in Hospital Settings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Study title | Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review Articles (SANRA) (score from 0 to 2) | |||||||||
Justification of the article’s importance for the readership | Statement of the concrete aims or formulation of questions | Description of the literature search | referencing | Scientific reasoning | Appropriate presentation of data |  | ||||
Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
A framework to improve evidence-informed decision-making in health service management | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Study title | The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) version 2018 for information professionals and researchers (yes/no/can’t tell) | |||||||||
Screening questions | Questions for Mixed methods studies | Â | ||||||||
Are there clear research questions? | Do the collected data allow to address the research questions? | Is there an adequate rationale for using a mixed methods design to address the research question? | Are the different components of the study effectively integrated to answer the research question? | Are the outputs of the integration of qualitative and quantitative components adequately interpreted? | Are divergences and inconsistencies between quantitative and qualitative results adequately addressed? | Do the different components of the study adhere to the quality criteria of each tradition of the methods involved? | ||||
Understanding evidence: a statewide survey to explore evidence-informed public health decision-making in a local government setting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Can’t tell | |||
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 7: supporting staff in evidence-based decision-making, implementation, and evaluation in a local healthcare setting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Can’t tell | |||
Sustainability in Health care by Allocating Resources Effectively (SHARE) 8: developing, implementing, and evaluating an evidence dissemination service in a local healthcare setting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Can’t tell | |||
Evaluation of the performance and achievements of the WHO Evidence informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t tell | Yes | |||
Promoting the use of evidence in health policymaking in the ECOWAS region: the development and contextualization of an evidence-based policymaking guidance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Can’t tell | |||