A Preliminary Conceptual Framework of Clinical Documentation Burden: Exploratory Factor Analysis Investigating Usability, Effort, and Perceived Burden among Health Care Providers.

ABSTRACT: For every 30 minutes a provider spends seeing a patient, they spend 36 minutes charting in the electronic health record (EHR). Clinical documentation burden in U.S. health care is driven by increasing administrative tasks associated with EHRs, regulatory demands, and workflow inefficiencies. This burden contributes to increased cognitive load, fragmented care, and staff burnout. No comprehensive conceptual framework guides researchers addressing these challenges.This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework clarifying the interplay between psychological factors, technology, and documentation attributes-usability, effort, and perceived burden-among health care providers.Data were collected from a cross-sectional survey using a convenience sample of hospital- and ambulatory-based physic

SUBMITTER: Doherty R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700715 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature