Temporal associations between EHR-derived workload, burnout, and errors: a prospective cohort study.

Sunny S Lou; Daphne Lew; Derek R Harford; Chenyang Lu; Bradley A Evanoff; Jennifer G Duncan; Thomas G. Kannampallil

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Temporal associations between EHR-derived workload, burnout, and errors: a prospective cohort study.

July 20, 2022

Lou SS, Lew D, Harford DR, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022;37(9):2165-2172.

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Cross-sectional research has suggested many physicians experience burnout which can negatively impact patient safety. This longitudinal study evaluated the effect of workload (collected via electronic health record audit) on burnout and medication errors (i.e., retract-and-reorder [RAR] events) of internal medicine interns. Higher levels of workload were associated with burnout; there was no statistically significant association between burnout and RAR events.

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