Electronic health records and burnout: Time spent on the electronic health record after hours and message volume associated with exhaustion but not with cynicism among primary care clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study sought to determine whether objective measures of electronic health record (EHR) use-related to time, volume of work, and proficiency-are associated with either or both components of clinician burnout: exhaustion and cynicism.

Materials and methods

We combined Maslach Burnout Inventory survey measures (94% response rate; 122 of 130 clinicians) with objective, vendor-defined EHR use measures from log files (time after hours on clinic days; time on nonclinic days; message volume; composite measures of efficiency and proficiency). Data were collected in early 2018 from all primary care clinics of a large, urban, academic medical center. Multivariate regression models measured the association between each burnout component and each EHR use measure.

Result

SUBMITTER: Adler-Milstein J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647261 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature