Relationship Between Clerical Burden and Characteristics of the Electronic Environment With Physician Burnout and Professional Satisfaction.

By Tait D. Shanafelt, Lotte N. Dyrbye, Christine A. Sinsky, Omar Hasan, Daniel V. Satele, J. Sloan, Colin P. West. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2016

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Subfields: Emergency Medicine, General Health Professions, Health Information Management

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Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors (2018, neutral): “PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, national survey of US physicians between August 28, 2014, and October 6, 2014.(31) A detailed description of the survey administration process, participation rates, and demographic characteristics has been published previously.”
Executive Leadership and Physician Well‐being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout (2017, background): “In parallel, requirements for “meaningful use” of electronic health records have resulted in large capital expenditures and dramatically increased clerical burden for staff.(1,2) These financial challenges have, by and large, been addressed by increasing productivity expectations for physicians (ie,”
Tethered to the EHR: Primary Care Physician Workload Assessment Using EHR Event Log Data and Time-Motion Observations (2017, background): “There are a variety of solutions to address the many facets of physician burnout, 15 and developing organizational metrics that are specifically related to decreasing stress from EHR systems is critical.”
Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review (2018, background): “Although gender is not an independent predictor of burnout, after adjusting for age and other factors some studies have found female physicians to have 20%–60% increased odds of fatigue compared to men [7,9,13].”
Artificial intelligence in medical education (2019, background): “The most common is that data capture interferes with normal health care workflow practice and procedures that specifically require direct eye contact between doctor and patient (Unger 2015; Gaither 2016; Sinsky et al. 2016; Shanafelt et al. 2016).”
Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties (2016, neutral): “Correlations between increases in EHR task load and physician burnout and attrition have also been shown (7, 8).”
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Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care (2017, background): “Page 4 Published July 5, 2017 studies have found female physicians to have 30–60 percent increased odds of burnout [2,58,67].”