Domains and processes for institutionalizing evidence-informed health policy-making: a critical interpretive synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While calls for institutionalization of evidence-informed policy-making (EIP) have become stronger in recent years, there is a paucity of methods that governments and organizational knowledge brokers can use to sustain and integrate EIP as part of mainstream health policy-making. The objective of this paper was to conduct a knowledge synthesis of the published and grey literatures to develop a theoretical framework with the key features of EIP institutionalization.

Methods

We applied a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) that allowed for a systematic, yet iterative and dynamic analysis of heterogeneous bodies of literature to develop an explanatory framework for EIP institutionalization. We used a "compass" question to create a detailed search strategy and condu

SUBMITTER: Kuchenmuller T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8894559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature