Effect of restricting electronic health records on clinician efficiency: substudy of a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT: A prior randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed no significant difference in wrong-patient errors between clinicians assigned to a restricted electronic health record (EHR) configuration (limiting to 1 record open at a time) versus an unrestricted EHR configuration (allowing up to 4 records open concurrently). However, it is unknown whether an unrestricted EHR configuration is more efficient. This substudy of the RCT compared clinician efficiency between EHR configurations using objective measures. All clinicians who logged onto the EHR during the substudy period were included. The primary outcome measure of efficiency was total active minutes per day. Counts were extracted from audit log data, and mixed-effects negative binomial regression was performed to determine differences between r

SUBMITTER: Kneifati-Hayek JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10114017 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature