Frontiers in Health Informatics www.ijmi.ir 2021; 10: 87 Open Access Copyright© 2021, Published by Frontiers in Health Informatics. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) License (http://creativecommons.org/). The role of clinical dashboards in improving nursing care: A systematic review Fatemeh Salehi 1 , Gholamreza Moradi 2 , Masood Setoodefar 3 , Mohammad Reza Mazaheri Habibi 2 * 1 PhD Student in Health Information Management, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2 Department of Health Information Technology, Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3 Department of Computer Sciences, School of Engineering, Khayyam University, Mashhad, Iran Article Info A B S T R A C T Article type: Review Introduction: Advances and increasing technology adoption in the field of health have made it possible to implement tools such as clinical dashboards to assist nursing staff in providing better, more effective and safer care. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of clinical dashboards in providing nursing care. Material and Methods: This was a review study. For this purpose, the keywords Nursing, Nursing care, Clinical Dashboard, Health Dashboard, Evaluation were searched in the database of PubMed, Google Scholar, science direct. Criteria for inclusion in this study were studies that examined the role of clinical dashboards in the field of nursing and were published between 1990 and 2020. The necessary information was extracted using a researcher-made checklist and analyzed and reported in a descriptive manner. Results: A total of 2749 articles were retrieved. After reviewing by title, abstract and keywords, 7 studies that had appropriate content validity were selected for the present study. The intensive care unit had the highest frequency of dashboard use in nursing processes (n=3, 42%). The findings of this study showed that improving the quality of care, reducing medical errors and increasing patient safety are the most important benefits of using clinical dashboards in the field of nursing. Improving nurses' awareness of important patient issues and supporting clinical decisions were next in line. Conclusion: Clinical dashboards in the field of nursing care can reduce errors and possible negligence in the treatment by integration patient information and providing a comprehensive visual view of important patient information and as a suitable tool for evidence-based clinical and nursing decision support. Article History: Received: 2021-05-25 Accepted: 2021-08-17 Published: 2021-08-25 * Corresponding author: Mohammad Reza Mazaheri Habibi Department of Health Information Technology, Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Email: MazaheriM@varastegan.ac.ir Keywords: Clinical Dashboard Nurse Nursing Care Health Information Evaluation Cite this paper as: Salehi F, Moradi G, Setoodefar M, Mazaheri Habibi MR. The role of clinical dashboards in improving nursing care: A systematic review. Front Health Inform. 2021; 10: 87. DOI: 10.30699/fhi.v10i1.308 INTRODUCTION Nurses are considered as one of the most important elements of health care systems and play a major role in providing continuous and quality care to patients [1]. Along with the advancement of science, nursing has also gone through its developmental stages rapidly and has changed the role of nurses from passive and dependent to independent and decision- making [2]. One of the unique challenges that nurses always face is the breadth, complexity, diversity and multiplicity of clinical information. Nurses are faced with a large amount of clinical data that in most cases do not have the right tools and processes to manage and use this information optimally [3]. Since nurses have an important role in providing care to patients due to their greater interaction with the patient, they should not be kept away from patient health information. Loss of their knowledge of the doctor's instructions and important patient information can lead to negative consequences in the patient's treatment process [4, 5]. One of the new technologies that can change the