The search strategy is outlined below. The studies were categorised based on similarities in their main objectives and findings to enable thematic analysis.

Scope

The scope of this review was confined to:

Data sources and search strategy

The initial search was undertaken in April 2022 on studies published between 2012 and 2022, in the following databases accessed via Griffith Library and Google Scholar search engines: Medline, Web of Science and Scopus. Appendix 1 provides a list of search query combination terms used to search the databases. The key term EMR is also used interchangeably with the terms in Table 3 below (Zurynski et al., 2021), which were also used to capture the full range of research. Refer to Table 1 for definitions of these terms.

Table 3: Search terms used in scoping literature review