Table 1 An outline of the Consolidated Framework of Implementation Research (CFIR)

Intervention

Intervention source, evidence strength and quality, relative advantage, adaptability, trialability, complexity, design quality and packaging and cost

Outer setting

Patients’ needs and resources, cosmopolitanism, peer pressure and external policy and incentives

Inner setting

Structural characteristics, networks and communications, culture, implementation climate and readiness for implementation

Individuals

Knowledge and belief about the intervention, self-efficacy, individual stage of change, individual identification with the organisation and other personal attributes.

Process

Planning, engaging, executing, reflecting and evaluating