Table 1.

General characteristics of the studies included in this research

Study	Research location	Document	Type of study	Participants
Edward P. Elizabeth A, 2000 [23]	Georgia	Editorial	–	–
Douglas S. Bell, Richard S. Marken, et al., 2004 [14]	USA	Original article	Qualitative	Medicine, nursing, pharmacy, managed care, pharmacy benefit management, consumer advocacy, medical informatics, health care oversight, health care quality and safety, and health economics
Douglas S. Bell, Shan Cretin, et al. 2004 [13]	USA	Original article	Qualitative	E-prescribing vendors
Jonathan M. Teich, Jerome A. Osheroff, et al., 2005 [20]	USA	Report	–	–
C. Jason Wang, Richards S. Marken, et al., 2005 [10]	USA	Original article	Descriptive	Candidate vendors of electronic prescribing systems,
Robyn Tamblyn, Allen Huang, et al., 2006 [15]	Canada	Original article	Cohort	Primary care physicians and consenting patients
Robert S. Gerstle, Christoph U. Lehmann, et al., 2007 [21]	USA	Report	–	The pediatrician in the ambulatory setting
Douglas S. Bell, Anthony J. Schueth, et al., 2007 [22]	USA	Report	–	Physicians
Michelle Sweidan, Margaret Williamson, et al., 2010 [16]	Australia	Original article	Qualitative	Multidisciplinary expert group
Mohamed El, Houseny El, et al., 2011 [17]	Egypt	Original article	Cross-sectional	Physicians from different specialties, pharmacy staff (pharmacists and assistant pharmacists), nurses, and outpatients
Mahnaz Samadbeik, Maryam Ahmadi, et al., 2013 [24]	Iran	Review a	Review	–
Stephen Ward, Max Watson, 2013 [18]	Northern Ireland	Original article	Mixed-methods	Different professionals involved (consultant, registrar, ward manager, staff nurse, and pharmacist)
Ömer Gider, Saffet Ocak, et al., 2015 [19]	Turkey	Original article	Cross-sectional	Physicians