Physician EHR Time and Visit Volume Following Adoption of Team-Based Documentation Support.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physicians spend the plurality of active electronic health record (EHR) time on documentation. Excessive documentation limits time spent with patients and is associated with burnout. Organizations need effective strategies to reduce physician documentation burden; however, evidence on team-based documentation (eg, medical scribes) has been limited to small, single-institution studies lacking rigorous estimates of how documentation support changes EHR time and visit volume.

Objectives

To analyze how EHR documentation time and visit volume change following the adoption of team-based documentation approaches.

Design, setting, and participants

This national longitudinal cohort study analyzed physician-week EHR metadata from September 2020 through April 2021. A

SUBMITTER: Apathy NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11348094 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature