An evaluation of the compliance of studies evaluating health information systems in ‎Iran ‎with the Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics

Numerous studies have evaluated health information systems in Iran, but most studies have not ýfollowed a standard format for reporting their findings. The objective of this study was to ýevaluate the compliance of health information systems’ evaluations published in Persian journals ýwith the Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics (STARE-HI).
This was a review study in which papers reporting on evaluation of health information systems ýwere assessed in terms of 51 principles of the STARE-HI using a checklist. These papers were ýretrieved from the Persian databases of Magiran, IranMedex, and SID using appropriate ýkeywords. Data were classified and reported based on 13 main sections of the STARE-HI.
From the 727 retrieved papers, 36 were relevant to the study objectives. All paper had an ýintroduction section, but none of the paper had the authors’ contribution and conflict of interests ýsections. The mean compliance of articles with the STARE-HI was 71.4%, with the lowest being ýý52.94% and the highest being 82.35%.
The writing style and structure of studies evaluating health information systems require ýimprovementsþ.þý The quality of study reports can be improved through reporting essential ýinformation in articles and using corresponding guidelines in the design of authors’ instruction ýsections of journals. Improving the reporting format of papers can result in better and higher rate ýof application of study results and increased citation of articles.