Accounting for taste: preferences mediate the relationship between documentation time and ambulatory physician burnout.
Physician burnout in the US has reached crisis levels, with one source identified as extensive after-hours documentation work in the electronic health record (EHR). Evidence has illustrated that physician preferences for after-hours work vary, such that after-hours work may not be universally burdensome. Our objectives were to analyze variation in preferences for after-hours documentation and assess if preferences mediate the relationship between after-hours documentation time and burnout.
Author(s): Apathy, Nate C, Hartman-Hall, Heather, Tran, Alberta, Kim, Dae Hyun, Ratwani, Raj M, Marchalik, Daniel
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae193