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Table 1 Search strategy

From: The effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions for promoting evidence-informed decision-making among nurses in tertiary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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/)