Interventions for sharing of electronic patient records
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The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to perform a systematic search of studies evaluating the effect of interventions for sharing of electronic patient records.
Key message
Methods
We designed and carried out a systematic search in relevant databases, including Medline, Embase, CENTRAL and DARE. The search was finalised in April 2015. Two or more researchers independently reviewed all references for potential inclusion based on explicit criteria.
Results
We identified a total of 7075 references. Of these, 167 were judged as potential relevant. We sorted the potential relevant references in 6 categories based on intervention and study design.
- Category 1 included 55 systematic reviews of different interventions.
- Category 2-6 included randomised or non-randomised trials and observational studies, and the following interventions:
- interactions between levels of health care or personnel (54 references),
- referrals and tests (6 references),
- prescribing and medication management (46 references),
- adverse events (2 references)
- public health interventions (3 references)