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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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.
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Authors: Kelly L. Myrick, PhD, and Malikah McNeal, MPH

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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.
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 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.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7050a4.htm

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.

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