Chief Healthcare Executive February 3, 2025
Researchers have found that physician burnout is tied to documentation time after hours. Lisa Rotenstein of UCSF Health talks about ways to reduce burnout.
Physicians say they are struggling with burnout, and spending time updating patient records on their “off hours” is contributing to the problem.
Many doctors bemoan the amount of documentation work they are doing in electronic health records after hours, or in what is dubbed “pajama time.” Researchers recently looked at some of the links between electronic health record documentation and the contribution to burnout among physicians.
Lisa Rotenstein, the lead author of the study and the medical director of ambulatory quality and safety at UCSF Health, said researchers looked at more than 10,000 family physicians between...
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