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QuickStats: Distribution of Hours per Day That Office-Based Primary Care and Specialist Care Physicians Spent Outside Normal Office Hours Documenting Clinical Care in Their Medical Record System — U.S. 2019
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12 17 2021
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(50):1752Series: QuickStats
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Alternative Title:MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
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Description:In 2019, 91.0% of office-based physicians spent time outside normal office hours documenting clinical care: 17.0% spent <1 hour, 41.4% spent 1–2 hours, 24.0% spent >2 hours–4 hours, and 8.6% spent >4 hours per day. The percentage of primary care physicians who spent no hours per day documenting clinical care (5.3%) was lower than the percentage of specialist care physicians (12.3%) who spent no hours per day documenting clinical care. In other time categories, there was no statistically significant difference between primary care and specialist care physicians.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Electronic Health Records Survey, 2019. National Electronic Health Records Survey public use file national weighted estimates, 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nehrs/2019NEHRS-PUF-weighted-estimates-508.pdf
Reported by: Kelly L. Myrick, PhD; Malikah McNeal, MPH.
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Pubmed ID:34914671
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC8675657
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