HealthExec December 6, 2022
A study that aimed to look at the association between physician burnout and electronic health record message characteristics did not find a strong link, but did reveal opportunities to improve negativity and hostility toward physicians in some messages.
The study, published recently in JAMA, aimed to explore the association between EHR use and burnout, which has been an increasingly larger problem throughout the industry. The COVID-19 pandemic and the stressors related to it have also worsened burnout over the past few years.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego specifically wanted to know if characteristics of EHR messages, such as the number of messages, length and sentiment, were associated with burnout. They conducted a survey, of which...
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