Medscape April 29, 2021
Physicians who spend less time charting after-hours and those who have better organizational support for their electronic health records (EHRs) are less likely to report that they feel burned out, according to a large-scale study published April 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Among the physicians who responded to the surveys used in the study, doctors who spent 5 hours or less a week on after-hours charting were twice as likely to report lower levels of burnout than those who charted after-hours for 6 or more hours per week.
The same was true for respondents who said their healthcare organizations had done a great job with EHR implementation, training, and support.
The researchers used data from...
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