Table 2.

Study eligibility criteria for this systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis.

Domain	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Population	Multidisciplinary clinicians, including physicians, surgeons, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists, or adult inpatients	Nonclinical hospital staff, including hospital executive and administration staff Pediatric inpatients
Setting	Defined as a digital hospital or defined as a digital hospital by our research team—an acute care (hospital) service that uses an EMRa or any terminological variation to contribute to the goals of the health service [30]	Study not conducted in an acute hospital setting (eg, primary care, secondary care, internet-based health interventions, IoTb interventions, Hospital in the Home services, telehealth in primary care settings, mobile health, and public health) Study not concerning an EMR or any terminological variation in a hospital setting
Design	Qualitative methods for data collection (eg, interviews, focus groups, or ethnography) and data analysis (eg, thematic analysis or content analysis) Quantitative methods (eg, survey) to collect and analyze data Mixed methods studies in which either component fulfilled our eligibility criteria	Qualitative studies that do not include verbatim quotes from participants (to enable evidence synthesis) Articles not published as full-text empirical studies (ie, abstracts, conference proceedings, gray literature, dissertations, or theses; because of depth and quality variations) Narrative or systematic literature reviews; however, their reference lists were checked for relevant articles before exclusion (as our review focused on individual empirical studies) Articles published before 2010 (because of the rapid adoption of EMRs in hospitals since 2010) Articles not published in English (because of limited funding available for large-scale translation)

^aEMR: electronic medical record.

^bIoT: Internet of Things.