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Area of Science:

  • Health Research Synthesis
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Systematic Review Methodology

Background:

  • Systematic reviews are crucial for health and welfare policy decisions.
  • Assessing the transferability of review findings to specific contexts is vital but lacks established methods.
  • Current systematic review processes may not adequately support the assessment of transferability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify existing checklists that support the assessment of transferability in systematic reviews.
  • To develop a comprehensive list of factors influencing transferability from identified checklists.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic mapping and content analysis of relevant checklists.
  • Searched eight databases and gray literature for checklists assessing transferability (June 2016).
  • Included 25 health and social welfare checklists in the content analysis, grouping criteria into seven themes.

Main Results:

  • Identified 31 relevant checklists; 25 focused on health and social welfare research findings.
  • Seven themes emerged from content analysis: population, intervention, implementation context, comparison intervention, outcomes, environmental context, and researcher conduct.
  • No checklists were found for qualitative evidence syntheses or social welfare practice/policy, and none provided guidance for review authors on assessing transferability.

Conclusions:

  • A variety of checklists exist to assess transferability, but guidance for systematic review authors is lacking.
  • The content analysis provides a basis for developing a structured approach to systematically assess transferability.
  • Further development is needed to support review authors in transparently considering transferability early in the review process.