Quality of reporting of complex healthcare interventions and applicability of the CReDECI list - a survey of publications indexed in PubMed

Möhler, Ralph; Bartoszek, Gabriele; Meyer, Gabriele

doi:10.1186/1471-2288-13-125

Table 3 Results of the rating of the CReDECI items

From: Quality of reporting of complex healthcare interventions and applicability of the CReDECI list - a survey of publications indexed in PubMed

	[16]	[17]	[18]	[19]	[20]	[21]	[22]	[23]
Development
1. Description of the intervention’s underlying theoretical considerations	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
2. Description of all components of the intervention	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
3. Rationale for the selection of the intervention’s components	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
4. Illustration of any intended interactions between different components	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
5. Rationale for the aim/essential functions of the intervention’s components, including the evidence whether the components are appropriate for achieving this goal	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
6. Consideration of contextual factors and determinants of the setting in the modelling of the intervention	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Feasibility and piloting
7. Information on pilot-testing	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
8. In case of pilot-test: Presentation of all relevant results and their impact on the modelling of the final intervention	n. a.	+	-	+	+	+	+	+
Introduction of the intervention and evaluation
9. Description of the control intervention (comparator)	-	+	-	-	+	+	+	-
10. If the study was conducted in different clusters or centres: Description of a standardised implementation strategy throughout the centres	-	+	n. a.	-	+	+	-	n. a.
11. Description of all materials/ tools used for the implementation of the intervention to allow a replication of the study	-	+	+	+	+	+	+	-
12. Description of an evaluation of the implementation process	-	+	-	-	+^*	+	-	+
13. Description of any deviation from the study protocol during the implementation process	-	+	-	-	-^*	+	-	+
14. Description of facilitators or barriers revealed by the process evaluation which have influenced the interventions’ implementation	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	+
15. Description of unexpected interactions between components of the intervention and the environment in which the intervention was implemented	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
16. Description of costs or required resources for the intervention’s implementation	-	+	+	-	+	+	-	-^*

+ Fulfilled; - not fulfilled; n. a. not applicable; * unpublished information delivered by study authors.

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