Electronic medical records and physician stress in primary care: results from the MEMO Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Stress may rise for physicians with a moderate number of EMR functions. Time pressure was associated with poor physician outcomes mainly in the high EMR cluster. Work redesign may address these stressors.
PMID: 24005796 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - September 4, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Babbott S, Manwell LB, Brown R, Montague E, Williams E, Schwartz M, Hess E, Linzer M Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research