Understanding Physician Work and Well-being Through Social Network Modeling Using Electronic Health Record Data: a Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding association between factors related to clinical work environment and well-being can inform strategies to improve physicians' work experience.

Objective

To model and quantify what drivers of work composition, team structure, and dynamics are associated with well-being.

Design

Utilizing social network modeling, this cohort study of physicians in an academic health center examined inbasket messaging data from 2018 to 2019 to identify work composition, team structure, and dynamics features. Indicators from a survey in 2019 were used as dependent variables to identify factors predictive of well-being.

Participants

EHR data available for 188 physicians and their care teams from 18 primary care practices; survey data available for 163/188 phys

SUBMITTER: Escribe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640486 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature