Tethered to the EHR: A Physician Workload Assessment Page 1 ANNALS OF FAMILY
MEDICINE ✦ WWW.ANNFAMMED.ORG ✦ VOL. 15, NO. 5 ✦ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 iii …

PURPOSE Primary care physicians spend nearly 2 hours on electronic health record (EHR)
tasks per hour of direct patient care. Demand for non–face-to-face care, such as …

Background Hospitalist physicians' workload–the total number of patients they care for daily–
is rising in the US Hospitalists report that increased workload negatively affects patients …

Does Physician’s Choice of When to Perform EHR Tasks Influence Total EHR Workload?
Page 1 1 Does Physician’s Choice of When to Perform EHR Tasks Influence Total EHR …

We analysed hospital use for 58 common clinical conditions in the medical specialties, using
data from the two districts covered by the Oxford record linkage study 1968-1986. Episode …

Background Little is known about how physicians spend their work time. Objective To
determine how physicians in outpatient care spend their time at work, using an innovative …

In the era of duty‐hour regulations, there is increasing concern regarding resident workload
compression. We conducted a retrospective, observational assessment of all internal …

Methods. Over 4 weeks in November 2010, we electronically surveyed 890 self-identified
hospitalists enrolled in an online physician community, QuantiaMD. com, the largest mobile …

We invited you to share your thoughts on the practice and career challenges that confront
you today. You responded emphatically to our questionnaire, and two issues--maintaining …

Background: The level of work intensity associated with patient encounters has implications
for quality of care, patient safety, practice management, and reimbursement. The utility of …