Table 3

Critical adoption factors for adopting clinical information systems in the reviewed studies

Critical factor

Number of studies by study type

Descriptive

Cross-sectional

Analytical

Experimental

Quasi-experimental

User attitude towards information systems

24 [5,15,22,24-42,66,67]

13 [43-50,68-70,87,89]

7 [51-57]

2 [58,59]

8 [4,11,60-65]

Workflow impact

8 [15,24,26-30,67]

10 [3,43-45,47,48,68,69,73,74]

8 [7,51-56,75]

3 [4,60,61]

Interoperability

11 [5,6,8,22,24,27,30,33,77,78,88]

2 [79,89]

2 [4,61]

Technical support

8 [5,15,24-26,31,32,66]

3 [45,74,86]

2 [7,76]

1 [62]

Communication among users

4 [24-26,66]

3 [45,46,87]

5 [2,7,51,52,75]

Expert support

7 [5,15,24,25,28,31,66]

1 [45]

2 [7,76]

1 [4]

Castillo et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010 10:60   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-10-60