OBJECTIVES: In recent years, authors and organizations have emphasized the relevance to assess the potential of an innovation to be scale up (scalability). Nevertheless, despite the existence of models and guides to encourage scaling up of health innovations, there is a lack of practical tools to support the task. We aim to develop a patient-oriented tool for assessing the scalability of innovations in community-based primary health care (CBPHC).

METHODS: Using the RAND appropriateness method and from the perspective of Integrated Knowledge Translation approach, we will use evidence from one knowledge synthesis to achieve a consensus opinion on the most promising criteria for assessing the scalability of EBIs in the context of CBPHC. We form a steering committee for overseeing the study and to seek consensus on a preliminary set of scalability criteria to present in an online Delphi survey. This is composed of two patients, one decision maker, one family physician, one postdoctoral fellow and one researcher. The eDelphi aims to validate between stakeholders the scalability assessment criteria and will take place in three rounds. In the first round, we will collect participants’ sociodemographic information and for each scalability tool included in the preliminary list, we will ask participants to rate if the criteria are relevant to assess scalability in CBPHC. In the second round, participants will be asked individually to score each criterion for relevance and to provide a brief justification to support their rating scores. In the first and second rounds, participants will be able to add any further criterion. In the third round, participants will be invited to reconsider the relevance of the criteria and confirm or revise their score in light of the group’s score.

RESULTS: The expected result is the first version of the self-administered questionnaire to assess the scalability of innovations in CBPHC.

CONCLUSIONS: In progress.