The search strategy is outlined below. The studies were categorised
based on similarities in their main objectives and findings to enable
thematic analysis.
Scope
The scope of this review was confined to:
- Primary academic literature reporting on Australian outcomes of EMR
systems.
- Literature published over the last decade only due to the recency of
technology (Jedwab et al., 2019).
- Outcomes reported in all healthcare settings: hospitals, aged care,
allied health, and primary and community health.
- EMR technology only (not supplemental technologies linked to EMRs such
as secure messaging).
Data sources and search
strategy
The initial search was undertaken in April 2022 on studies published
between 2012 and 2022, in the following databases accessed via Griffith
Library and Google Scholar search engines: Medline, Web of Science and
Scopus. Appendix 1 provides a list of search query combination
terms used to search the databases. The key term EMR is also used
interchangeably with the terms in Table 3 below (Zurynski et
al., 2021), which were also used to capture the full range of research.
Refer to Table 1 for definitions of these terms.
Table 3: Search terms used in scoping literature review