Table 1 Search strategy

Electronic databases (inception until December, 6, 2017)

• Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)

• EMBASE

• Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC)

• Health and Psychological Instruments (HaPI)

• MathSciNet

• Ovid Medline

Other sources:

• Hand searches of included studies

• Hand searches of relevant journals including Implementation Science and Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing

• Grey Literature Report (http://greylit.org/)

• Canadian Health Research Collection

• Nursing association resource portals

o Canadian Nurses Association (https://www.cna-aiic.ca/en)

o Community Health Nurses of Canada (https://www.chnc.ca/)

o American Nurses Association (https://www.nursingworld.org/)

• Four content experts with high frequency citations related to EIDM assessment

• Relevant conference proceedings:

o Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/IS/training-education/index.html#conference)

o National Community Health Nursing Conference – Community Health Nurses of Canada (https://www.chnc.ca/en/conferences)

o Knowledge Translation Canada Annual Scientific Meeting