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 — United States, 2019

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The figure is a bar chart showing the 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, in the United States during 2019, using data from the National Electronic Health Records Survey.

* With 95% CIs indicated with error bars.

Defined as average hours per day spent outside of normal office hours documenting clinical care. Medical record system includes paper-based and electronic health record systems.

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.pdfpdf icon

Reported by: Kelly L. Myrick, PhD, kmyrick@cdc.gov, 301-458-4498; Malikah McNeal, MPH.


Suggested citation for this article: 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† — United States, 2019. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:1752. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7050a4external icon.

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