Table 3 NVIVO nodes

1. How practitioners understood and defined evidence

2. Challenges associated with using evidence

3. Changes that occurred as a result of using evidence

4. How evidence guides or does not guide practice

5. Debates about the evidence

6. Role of the model core public health program paper in developing a performance improvement plan

7. The purpose for which evidence is needed

8. Traditional ways of working with respect to evidence use

9. Types and sources of evidence used

10. Uptake of the provincial public health program evidence reviews

11. Ways of thinking about evidence in general

12. The concept of evidence-informed practice

13. The concept of practice-informed evidence

14. Ways of incorporating various knowledge types into practice