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. 2022 Mar 15;24(3):e33046. doi: 10.2196/33046

Table 9.

Overview of types of impact and related included studies.

Impact Description Source
Patient safety The impact on the safety (physical and mental) of the patient [20,28,29,41,43,46,48,53,54,58,59,67,75-77]
Effectiveness of care The effectiveness and quality of the care process performed [20,28,43,46,54,58,59,67]
Efficiency of care The impact on the efficiency of the care process in terms of time and resources expended [20,33,55,60,64,72,76]
Privacy and security (new) Impact on the security and privacy of data related to the patient or organization [32,39,51,52,56,63,68,75]
Data quality (new) Impact of workarounds on data quality (eg, loss of data or decreased data quality) [32,33,35,39,41,46,51,52,56,59,69,76]
Financial (new) Financial implications because of the workaround [58]
Laws and regulations (new) Legal conflicts resulting from the use of a workaround [63,75]
Workload (new) An increase or decrease in workload of the EHRa user resulting from the use of a workaround [43]

aEHR: electronic health record.