ArticleApplied clinical informatics2024
Defining Documentation Burden (DocBurden) and Excessive DocBurden for All Health Professionals: A Scoping Review.
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Abstract
objectivesEfforts to reduce documentation burden (DocBurden) for all health professionals (HP) are aligned with national initiatives to improve clinician wellness and patient safety. Yet DocBurden has not been precisely defined, limiting national conversations and rigorous, reproducible, and meaningful measures. Increasing attention to DocBurden motivated this work to establish a standard definition of DocBurden, with the emergence of excessive DocBurden as a term.
methodsWe conducted a scoping review of DocBurden definitions and descriptions, searching six databases for scholarly, peer-reviewed, and gray literature sources, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extensions for Scoping Review guidance. For the concept clarification phase of work, we used the American Nursing Informatics Association's Six Domains of Burden Framework.
resultsA total of 153 articles were included based on a priori criteria. Most articles described a focus on DocBurden, but only 18% (
conclusionExisting literature does not distinguish between a baseline or required task load to conduct patient care resulting from usability issues (
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