Table 1 Key terms and their definitions

Evidence-based intervention (EBI)

“Programs, practices, principles, procedures, products, pills, and policies” that have been found to be effective at improving health behaviors, health outcomes, or health-related environments [21]

Actor

Who enacts the strategy [5]

 Delivery system actors

Individuals, teams, and systems that adopt and integrate EBIs into practice [12]

 Support system actors

Individuals, teams, and systems that build delivery systems’ general and EBI-specific capacity to adopt and integrate EBIs [12]

 Synthesis and translation systems

Organizations that identify, translate, and disseminate EBIs [12]

Implementation strategies (action)

“Methods or techniques used to enhance the adoption, implementation, and sustainability” of EBIs [2]

Action target

What the strategy intends to change [5]

 Levels

The level the strategy targets (intervention, individuals, inner setting, outer setting, processes) [18]

 Determinants

The modifiable factors the strategy intends to change to overcome barriers and activate facilitators of EBI adoption and implementation [15]