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CC BY 4.0 · ACI open 2020; 04(01): e1-e8
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3401815
Original Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Physician Burnout and Timing of Electronic Health Record Use

Mark A. Micek
1   Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
2   Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare Collaborative, UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Brian Arndt
2   Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare Collaborative, UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
3   Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Wen-Jan Tuan
3   Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Elizabeth Trowbridge
1   Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
2   Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare Collaborative, UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Shannon M. Dean
4   Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Jennifer Lochner
2   Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare Collaborative, UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
3   Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Emmanuel Sampene
5   Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
,
Nancy Pandhi
2   Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare Collaborative, UW Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
6   Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
› Institutsangaben Funding This study was supported by Pilot Project funding from the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (grant 233-AAC5738). Additional support was received from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, previously through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) grant 1UL1RR025011, and now by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), grant 9U54TR000021. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the United States government. This project was also supported by the UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCC) Support Grant from the National Cancer Institute, grant number P30 CA014520. Additional support was provided by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. We would also like to thank Linda Baier Manwell, MS, for her insightful advice and logistical support throughout this study.
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Abstract

Background Rates of burnout among physicians have been high in recent years. The electronic health record (EHR) is implicated as a major cause of burnout.

Objective This article aimed to determine the association between physician burnout and timing of EHR use in an academic internal medicine primary care practice.

Methods We conducted an observational cohort study using cross-sectional and retrospective data. Participants included primary care physicians in an academic outpatient general internal medicine practice. Burnout was measured with a single-item question via self-reported survey. EHR time was measured using retrospective automated data routinely captured within the institution's EHR. EHR time was separated into four categories: weekday work-hours in-clinic time, weekday work-hours out-of-clinic time, weekday afterhours time, and weekend/holiday after-hours time. Ordinal regression was used to determine the relationship between burnout and EHR time categories.

Results EHR use during in-clinic sessions was related to burnout in both bivariate (odds ratio [OR] = 1.04, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.01, 1.06; p = 0.007) and adjusted (OR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.1; p = 0.001) analyses. No significant relationships were found between burnout and after-hours EHR use.

Conclusion In this small single-institution study, physician burnout was associated with higher levels of in-clinic EHR use but not after-hours EHR use. Improved understanding of the variability of in-clinic EHR use, and the EHR tasks that are particularly burdensome to physicians, could help lead to interventions that better integrate EHR demands with clinical care and potentially reduce burnout. Further studies including more participants from diverse clinical settings are needed to further understand the relationship between burnout and after-hours EHR use.

Keywords

physician burnout - physician health - electronic health records

Protection of Human and Animal Subjects

This study was performed in compliance with the Belmont Report and the Common Rule (45 CFR 46), and was approved by the UW-Madison Health Sciences Institutional Review Board.


 

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