Efforts to reduce documentation burden (DocBurden) for all health professionals (HP) are aligned with national initiatives to improve clinician wellness and patient safety. Yet DocBurden has not been precisely defined, limiting national conversations and rigorous, reproducible, and meaningful measures. Increasing attention to DocBurden motivated this work to establish a standard definition of DocBurden, with the emergence of excessive DocBurden as a term.
Author(s): Levy, Deborah R, Withall, Jennifer B, Mishuris, Rebecca G, Tiase, Victoria, Diamond, Courtney, Douthit, Brian, Grabowska, Monika, Lee, Rachel Y, Moy, Amanda J, Sengstack, Patricia, Adler-Milstein, Julia, Detmer, Don Eugene, Johnson, Kevin B, Cimino, James J, Corley, Sarah, Murphy, Judy, Rosenbloom, S Trent, Cato, Kenrick, Rossetti, Sarah C
DOI: 10.1055/a-2385-1654