Temporal Associations Between EHR-Derived Workload, Burnout, and Errors: a Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The temporal progression and workload-related causal contributors to physician burnout are not well-understood.

Objective

To characterize burnout's time course and evaluate the effect of time-varying workload on burnout and medical errors.

Design

Six-month longitudinal cohort study with measurements of burnout, workload, and wrong-patient orders every 4 weeks.

Participants

Seventy-five intern physicians in internal medicine, pediatrics, and anesthesiology at a large academic medical center.

Main measures

Burnout was measured using the Professional Fulfillment Index survey. Workload was collected from electronic health record (EHR) audit logs and summarized as follows: total time spent on the EHR, after-hours EHR time, patient load, inbox time,

SUBMITTER: Lou SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9296727 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature