health-informatics
Do EHRs feed physician burnout?
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Among 208 respondents, ~26% of physicians reported burnout symptoms and 74.5% of those with symptoms blamed the EHR; logs showed large overestimates vs self-reported EHR time.
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Communication skills training can improve health literacy–related medical outcomes.
Physician communication training improves health literacy and medical outcomes in the cited interventional evaluation.
Scope note — EHR burnout is a system constraint on PCC delivery
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PCC/co-creation associated with satisfaction vs EHR use associated with physician burnout
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PCC/co-creation associated with satisfaction vs EHR use associated with physician burnout
Study at a glance
- Design
- Cross-sectional — Survey of physicians/learners plus EHR back-end usage logs at a Canadian academic mental health hospital
- N
- N=208 · 176 physicians + 32 learners; survey sent to 474
- Population
- Physicians, residents, and fellows at a large Canadian academic mental health hospital
- Outcome
- Burnout symptoms and perceived EHR contribution; log vs self-report time discrepancies
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Do EHRs feed physician burnout?
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208 respondents (176 physicians, 32 learners).
Our survey included 208 respondents, including physicians (n=176) and learners (n=32).
25.6% of physicians reported burnout symptoms; 74.5% of symptomatic respondents cited EHR.
A total of 25.6% (45/176) of practicing physicians and 19% (6/32) of learners reported having one or more symptoms of burnout, and 74.5% (155/208) of all respondents who reported burnout symptoms identified the EHR as a contributor.
Key findings
25.6% of physicians and 19% of learners reported ≥1 burnout symptom; 74.5% of respondents with symptoms identified the EHR as a contributor. Lower satisfaction/higher frustration linked to perceiving EHR-driven burnout. Logs overestimated time/patient by 13.6 min and after-hours EHR time by 5.63 hours vs self-report.
Methodology
Cross-sectional survey (May–June 2019) of physicians and learners plus administrative EHR usage logs at a Canadian academic mental health hospital; tested associations between EHR factors and burnout.
Limitations
Single-site cross-section cannot prove EHRs cause burnout or that any redesign would reduce it; self-report and log metrics both have measurement error.
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