ReviewJournal of primary care & community health
Burnout Related to Electronic Health Record Use in Primary Care.
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113 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Impact of Digitalization on European General Practice From the Perspective of General Practitioners: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Organizational Interventions to Address Primary Care Provider Burnout: A Systematic Review.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2026Pooled it
- Electronic health records-related determinants of healthcare professionals' burnout and mitigation strategies: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Scribes in Health Care: A Systematic Review.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of artificial intelligence on electronic health record-related burnouts among healthcare professionals: systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of eHealth use on general practice workload in the pre-COVID-19 era: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
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- Physician Factors Associated With Burnout During System-Wide Electronic Health Record Implementation: A Prospective Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Acute and Post-Acute Care Physicians.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2026Article
- The use of objective EHR-and schedule-based clinical workload and EHR use measures in predicting inpatient pediatric provider burnout.JAMIA open · 2026Article
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- Automating the Management of Extraspinal Findings in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spine Studies Using a Privacy-Preserving Large Language Model: Retrospective Validation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Coaching the Caregivers: A Burnout Intervention for Military Physicians and Medical Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Observational
- The Triple Burden of Administrative Tasks Among US Family Medicine Physicians-A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Optimizing Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Clinic Flow: A Prospective Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Scribe Technology.Arthroplasty today · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence Scribes in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Narrative Review.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2026Review
- Evaluating the impact of artificial intelligence scribes on clinical documentation in primary care: a simulation study.JAMIA open · 2026Article
- A Patient Panel Assignment Strategy to Balance Provider Workload in Family Medicine.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Physician burnout has been increasing in the United States, especially in primary care, and the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is a prominent contributor. This review article summarizes findings from a PubMed literature search that shows the significant contributors to EHR-related burnout may be documentation and clerical burdens, complex usability, electronic messaging and inbox, cognitive load, and time demands. Documentation requirements have escalated and have inherently changed from paper-based records. Many clerical tasks have also shifted to become additional physician responsibilities. When considering factors of efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction, EHRs overall have an inferior usability score when compared to other technologies. The volume and organization of data along with alerts and complex interfaces require a substantial cognitive load and result in cognitive fatigue. Patient interactions and work-life balances are negatively affected by the time requirements of EHR tasks during and after clinic hours. Patient portals and EHR messaging have created a separate source of patient care outside of face-to-face visits that is often unaccounted productivity and not reimbursable.
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