Appendix 1. MEDLINE search strategy

1. exp stroke/

2. exp cerebrovascular disorders/

3. exp brain ischemia/

4. exp brain infarction/

5. exp cerebral infarction/

6. exp subarachnoid hemorrhage/

7. exp intracranial hemorrhages/

8. (stroke or poststroke or post‐stroke or cerebrovasc* or brainvasc* or cerebral vasc* or cva* or apoplex* or sah).ti,ab.

9. ((brain* or cerebr* or cerebell* or intracran* or intracerebral) adj5 (isch?emi* or infarct* or thrombo* or emboli* or occlus*)).ti,ab.

10. ((brain* or cerebr* or cerebell*or intracerebral or intracranial or subarachnoid) adj5 (haemorrhage* or hemorrhage* or haematoma*or hematoma* or bleed*)).ti,ab.

11. (acquired brain injur* or brain injur*).ti,ab.

12. or/1‐11

13. (post stroke or poststroke).ti,ab.

14. rehabilitat*.ti,ab.

15. rh.fs.

16. recover*.ti.ab

17. exp recovery of function/

18. therap*.ti.ab

19. or/13‐18

20. exp translational medical research/

21. (knowledge adj2 (application or broke* or creation or diffus* or disseminat* or exchang* or implement* or management or mobili* or translat* or transfer* or uptak* or utili*)).ti,ab.

22. (evidence* adj2 (exchang* or translat* or transfer* or diffus* or disseminat* or exchang* or implement* or management or mobil* or uptak* or utili*)).ti,ab.

23. (kt adj2 (application or broke* or diffus* or disseminat* or decision* or exchang* or implement* or intervent* or mobili* or plan* or policy or policies or strateg* or translat* or transfer* or uptak* or utili*)).ti,ab.

24. (research* adj2 (diffus* or disseminat* or exchang* or transfer* or translation* or application or implement* or mobil* or transfer* or uptak* or utili*)).ti,ab.

25. ('research findings into action' or 'research to action' or 'research into action' or 'evidence to action' or 'evidence to practice' or 'evidence into practice').ti,ab.

26. exp "diffusion of innovation"/

27. ((evidence base* or evidence inform*) adj5 (decision* or plan* or policy or policies or practice or action*)).ti,ab.

28. implementation.ti,ab.

29. behavio?r change.ti,ab.

30. exp organizational innovation/

31. organi?ational change.ti,ab.

32. complex intervention.ti,ab.

33. (audit or self‐audit).ti,ab.

34. ('barrier? and facilitator?').ti,ab.

35. (booklet* or brochure? or pamphlet? or paper‐based or 'printed material?').ti,ab.

36. decision mak*.mp. or exp decision making/

37. ((change? or changing or improv* or effect* or influenc* or alter* or adapt* or amend* or modify* or adjust* or transform*) adj2 (policy or policies or process* or practic* or provider? or activit*)).ti,ab.

38. ((knowledge or evidence or quality or research or practice) adj2 gap?).ti,ab.

39. (education* adj3 (continuing or group? or outreach or plan* or practitioner? or program? or staff? or team?)).ti,ab.

40. (evidence‐based adj3 (algorithm? or evaluat* or guideline? or healthcare or implement* or improv* or intervention* or management or pathway? or plan? or practic* or program? or quality)).ti,ab.

41. (feedback not (feedback adj loop*)).ti,ab.

42. exp guideline adherence/

43. (guideline? adj3 (adher* or enforc* or influenc* or implement* or impact* or introduc* or uptake or follow)).ti,ab.

44. (incentiv* adj2 (economic or employee? or financ* or insurer? or insurance or market* or monetar* or pay* or plan? or practitioner? or program* or provider? or reimburs* or salary or salarie? or staff or team* or value‐based)).ti,ab.

45. (collaborat* or cross‐profession* or intraprofession* or intra‐profession* or interprofession* or inter‐profession* or (skill adj2 mix*) or teambase? or team‐based or inter disciplin* or multidisciplin* or multi disciplin* or multiprofession*).ti,ab.

46. ((knowledge adj2 (transfer* or translation or shar* or exchan*)) or kt).ti,ab.

47. ((knowledge or evidence or practice) adj2 (gap? or barrier?)).ti,ab.

48. ((knowledge or evidence) adj2 synthesis).ti,ab.

49. 'opinion leader?'.ti,ab.

50. (outreach adj2 (communit* or plan? or program? or visit?)).ti,ab.

51. ((policy or policies) adj2 (chang* or effect? or impact? or influenc*)).ti,ab.

52. (quality adj2 (assurance or improvement? or initiativ* or plan* or program* or review or audit)).ti,ab.

53. (qi adj (inititative? or intervention? or program* or plan* or audit)).ti,ab.

54. ((change? or changing or improv* or effect* or influenc*) adj2 (policy or policies or practic* or provider?)).ti,ab.

55. (journal club or clinical librarian or library or libraries or 'answer service*' or 'information science').ti,ab.

56. best practice.ti,ab.

57. care pathway?.ti,ab.

58. (project network adj (technique? or diagram?)).ti,ab.

59. or/20‐58

60. 12 and 19 and 59

61. randomized controlled trial.pt.

62. controlled clinical trial.pt.

63. multicenter study.pt.

64. pragmatic clinical trial.pt.

65. (randomis* or randomiz* or randomly).ti,ab.

66. groups.ab.

67. (trial or multicenter or multi center or multicentre or multi centre).ti.

68. (intervention? or effect? or impact? or controlled or control group? or (before adj5 after) or (pre adj5 post) or ((pretest or pre test) and (posttest or post test)) or quasiexperiment* or quasi experiment* or pseudo experiment* or pseudoexperiment* or evaluat* or time series or time point? or repeated measur*).ti,ab.

69. non‐randomized controlled trials as topic/

70. interrupted time series analysis/

71. controlled before‐after studies/

72. or/61‐71

73. exp animals/

74. humans/

75. 73 not (73 and 74)

76. review.pt.

77. meta analysis.pt.

78. news.pt.

79. comment.pt.

80. editorial.pt.

81. cochrane database of systematic reviews.jn.

82. comment on.cm.

83. (systematic review or literature review).ti.

84. or/75‐83

85. 72 not 84

86. 60 and 85