Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for study selection

IncludeExclude
Study design
  • Qualitative studies, standalone

  • Qualitative studies in the context of mixed-methods or other designs

  • Systematic reviews of qualitative studies (at least one database searched)

  • Quantitative studies

  • Clearly commentary/letter only with no new data from primary studies

  • Clearly narrative review (no mention of any database searched)

Publication type
  • Full article

  • Letter

  • Conference abstracts

  • Study report

  • Letter with a commentary on other studies only

Setting
  • Any hospital-based care setting

  • Include any mixed-care setting at this stage

  • Primary care settings

  • Clinics not hospital-based

  • Secondary/tertiary care not hospital-based

  • Community care not hospital-based

  • Residential care setting

Perspective—population
  • All individuals involved in electronic prescribing systems' implementation, use and management such as: service providers (including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals), service users (including patients and family members or relatives of patients), personnel involved in the management and/or implementation, policymakers or commissioners responsible for the introduction of such systems

  • None

Intervention
  • Any electronic system, or subsystem, involved in the prescription and/or administration phase of the medication process

  • Any electronic system not involved in the prescription and/or administration phases of the medication process (eg, robots that pick drugs for dispensing and systems for stock control are excluded)

Evaluation—outcomes
No restriction by outcome