Association Between Electronic Health Record Time and Quality of Care Metrics in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physicians across the US spend substantial time working in the electronic health record (EHR), with primary care physicians (PCPs) spending the most time. The association between EHR time and ambulatory care quality outcomes is unclear.

Objective

To characterize measures of EHR use and ambulatory care quality performance among PCPs.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study of PCPs with longitudinal patient panels using a single EHR vendor was conducted at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital during calendar year 2021.

Exposures

Independent variables included PCPs demographic and practice characteristics and EHR time measures (PCP-level mean of daily total EHR time, after-hours time, time from 5:30 pm to 7:0

SUBMITTER: Rotenstein LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9579903 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature