Physician Note Composition Patterns and Time on the EHR Across Specialty Types: a National, Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of clinical documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) has been associated with physician burnout. Numerous tools (e.g., note templates and dictation services) exist to ease documentation burden, but little evidence exists regarding how physicians use these tools in combination and the degree to which these strategies correlate with reduced time spent on documentation.

Objective

To characterize EHR note composition strategies, how these strategies differ in time spent on notes and the EHR, and their distribution across specialty types.

Design

Secondary analysis of physician-level measures of note composition and EHR use derived from Epic Systems' Signal data warehouse. We used k-means clustering to identify documentation strategies, and or

SUBMITTER: Rotenstein LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10110827 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature