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Table 3 Frameworks (n = 15) to classify interventions

From: A scoping review of classification schemes of interventions to promote and integrate evidence into practice in healthcare

Classification scheme

Context

Focus of scheme

Methodology

Peer reviewed

Knowledge users

Piloted or tested

Theory based

Best 2008 [30]

Oncology

Knowledge integration framework for cancer control

Expert panels, literature review and concept mapping

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Cane 2012 [33]

General

Refinement of the theoretical domains framework

Card sorting and cluster analysis

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Century 2012 [63]

Education and social sciences

Two frameworks for describing implementation and for factors that affect implementation

Literature review

Yes

No

No

No

Cohen 2000 [64]

Public health, HIV prevention

Taxonomy of HIV interventions across individual and structural levels

Not reported

Yes

No

No

No

Czaja 2003 [47]

Behavioural interventions (Alzheimer’s Disease)

Describing and decomposing complex psychosocial and behavioural interventions

Mapping interventions onto framework

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Damshroder 2009 [14]

General

Consolidated Framework For Implementation Research (CFIR)

Literature review; snowballing, synthesis of theories and frameworks

Yes

No

No

Yes

Dixon 2010 [23]

Behaviour change

Competences to deliver interventions to change lifestyle behaviours that affect health

Literature review, feedback

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Dolan 2010 [22]

Policy

Checklist for policy-makers aimed at changing or shaping behaviour

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Not reported

Yes

Dy 2011 [32]

Patient safety

Patient safety practices

Literature review, consensus with experts

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Goel 1996 [65]

Social science, retail pharmacies

Conceptual framework of factors that affect retail pharmacy prescribing and strategies for behaviour change

Literature review

Yes

No

No

No

Hendriks 2013 [66]

Public health

Behaviour change ball framework for public health and childhood obesity

Literature review

Yes

No

No

Yes

Lavis 2006 [67]

Policy, international

Framework for assessing country-level efforts to link research to action

Not reported

Yes

No

No

No

Michie 2011 [20]

Behaviour change

Behaviour change wheel comprising: a ‘behaviour system’ at the hub, encircled by intervention functions and then by policy categories

Literature review; development of new framework

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Purdue 2005 [68]

Policy

Legal strategies for preventing cardiovascular disease

Not reported

Yes

No

No

No

Stirman 2013 [69]

General

Coding system for modifications and adaptions of interventions

Literature review

Yes

No

No

No