Background: Research suggests that high workloads in the inpatient setting (often measured through patient encounters/visits) contribute to increased hospital length of stay, increased costs, and delayed discharges. High workloads also negatively impact our quality improvement efforts and result in a mismatch in job demands and job resources leading to clinician burnout. To date, there is [...]

Background: Research suggests that high workloads in the inpatient setting (often measured through patient encounters/visits) contribute to increased hospital length of stay, increased costs, and delayed discharges. High workloads also negatively impact our quality improvement efforts and result in a mismatch in job demands and job resources leading to clinician burnout. To date, there is [...]

Background: A problem list serves as a central place for hospital-based clinicians to obtain a comprehensive and concise view of the patient’s active medical conditions. Use of the hospital problem list has many potential benefits: it provides a mental model of patient’s health status; streamlines the documentation process; makes chart review more efficient; facilitates communication [...]

Background: Health information technology (HIT) systems were created with the intent to improve efficiency and streamline clinical workflows. However, evidence suggests HIT systems are a significant source of clinician burnout (Adler-Milstein 2020). A thorough understanding of clinicians’ frustrations is necessary to develop solutions to improve HIT systems. In doing so, efforts from the clinical informatics [...]