Cumulated time to chart closure: a novel electronic health record-derived metric associated with clinician burnout.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We sought to determine whether average cumulated time to chart closure (CTCC), a novel construct to measure clinician workload burden, and electronic health record (EHR) measures were associated with a validated measure of burnout.

Materials and methods

Physicians at a large academic institution participated in a well-being survey that was linked to their EHR use data. CTCC was defined as the average time from the start of patient encounters to chart closure over a set of encounters. Established EHR use measures including daily total time in the EHR (EHR-Time8), time in the EHR outside scheduled hours, work outside of work (WOW₈), and time spent on inbox (IB-Time8) were calculated. We examined the relationship between CTCC, EHR use metrics, and burnout u

SUBMITTER: Shah M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852987 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature