Authors | Mortality | Readmission | Adverse events/near misses | Timeliness | Accuracy | Quality/completeness | Physician satisfaction | Patient satisfaction/knowledge |
Afilalo et al 6; Lang et al7 | NR | ↔ | NR | + | NR | + | + | NR/NR |
García-Aymerich et al17 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | ↔/+ |
Casas et al16 | ↔ | + | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR/NR |
Gray et al18 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | +/NR |
van Walraven et al 20 | NR | NR | NR | + | NR | ↔ | + | NR/NR |
Kirby et al12 | NR | NR | NR | + | NR | NR | NR | NR/NR |
Branger et al15 | NR | NR | NR | + | + | NR | + | NR/NR |
Callen et al 8 9 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | –/+* | NR | NR/NR |
O'Leary et al14 | NR | NR | + | + | NR | +† | + | NR/NR |
Maslove et al13 | ↔ | ↔ | NR | ↔ | NR | + | ↔/+ | ↔ |
Graumlich et al10 11 | ↔ | ↔ | ↔ | ↔ | NR | + | + | ↔/+† |
↵* The Callen et al study focuses on completeness of information. Electronic summaries were poorer on some items, but better on other items.
↵† The O'Leary et al study revealed improved completeness in some, but not all of the domains that were assessed. Similarly, the studies from Graumlich et al reported favourable outcomes on some but not all domains assessed.
+, Significantly improvement(s) in the intervention group; –, significantly poorer in the intervention group; ↔, no significant difference between groups; NR, not reported.