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False Claims, Real Threats: Cybersecurity Noncompliance And The False Claims Act’S Materiality Standard, Charlotte Bairey Jan 2026

False Claims, Real Threats: Cybersecurity Noncompliance And The False Claims Act’S Materiality Standard, Charlotte Bairey

University of Chicago Legal Forum

This Comment examines the challenges of applying the False Claims Act’s (FCA) materiality standard to cybersecurity noncompliance by federal contractors. Although the Department of Justice’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative seeks to hold government contractors accountable for misrepresenting their adherence to federal cybersecurity standards, courts have inconsistently applied the “holistic” framework for determining materiality established by the Supreme Court in Universal Health Services v. Escobar. Cybersecurity-related FCA claims face unique obstacles when it comes to showing materiality because noncompliance is widespread, national security interests complicate the government’s payment decisions, and government agencies may continue contracting with noncompliant entities out of necessity. This …

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Majority Rule And Bankruptcy Resolution Of Mass-Harm Events, Sarah Paterson, Adrian Walters Jan 2026

Majority Rule And Bankruptcy Resolution Of Mass-Harm Events, Sarah Paterson, Adrian Walters

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Mass-harm events invariably precipitate mass tort liabilities. Since the enactment of the Bankruptcy Code in 1978, firms have resorted to Chapter 11 to address mass tort claims in cases involving asbestos-related disease, defective products, the opioid crisis, and historic sexual abuse. Of late, the use of bankruptcy to resolve mass tort claims has been the subject of sustained criticism from inside and outside bankruptcy law’s professional and academic communities. Much of this has been provoked by the Purdue Pharma filing and the bankruptcy court’s approval of a plan of reorganization that created a liability shield for the Sackler family in …

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Exploring The Reduction Of Runway Incursions Through Training, Vasilios (Billy) Constaintine Metallinos Jan 2026

Exploring The Reduction Of Runway Incursions Through Training, Vasilios (Billy) Constaintine Metallinos

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Runway incursions are prevalent aviation safety issues that result in adverse outcomes. The focus of this qualitative case study was exploring the reduction of runway incursions through training for pilots. Applying social cognitive theory (SCT) provided this study with a theoretical underpinning. Conducting interviews and a focus group with 17 participants allowed for the collection of enough data and resulted in identifying the importance of training in preventing runway incursions. Based on the thematic analysis conducted, it was identified that evidence-based, scenario-based, and continuous training can be used to reduce runway incursions caused by pilot deviations. The results contribute to …

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Emergencies, Alien And Domestic, Samuel Issacharoff Jan 2026

Emergencies, Alien And Domestic, Samuel Issacharoff

University of Chicago Legal Forum

Democracies survive some emergencies, even emerging stronger after some crises despite temporary suspensions of liberty. Democracies die when faced with other emergencies. This Article explores why. It addresses the claimed need to limit rights of electoral participation in response to the rise of antidemocratic forces through the lens of militant democracy in Europe and the Insurrection Clause of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment in the United States. When examined through the context of claimed exigency, the ability of democracies to survive or even thrive after emergencies turns heavily on whether the source of the perceived threat is foreign or …

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Liability For Disaster Risks, Daniel A. Farber Jan 2026

Liability For Disaster Risks, Daniel A. Farber

University of Chicago Legal Forum

A growing body of law addresses liability for harms caused by disasters. The bases for liability are diverse: common law torts, statutes covering specific risks, and takings doctrine. Litigation can involve government or private defendants, while the disaster could be anything from an oil spill to a flood. This Article maps this complex legal terrain and discusses three cross-cutting themes in disaster liability. One theme is the action/inaction distinction, which can create a perverse incentive to postpone or forego mitigation efforts. The second theme involves the interplay between legislatures and courts in designing and implementing liability rules. The final theme …

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Knowledge, Power And Fear: Reflections On Exile, Edward Said And The 'Mainstreaming' Of Postcolonial Literary Thought, Valérie Orlando Jan 2026

Knowledge, Power And Fear: Reflections On Exile, Edward Said And The 'Mainstreaming' Of Postcolonial Literary Thought, Valérie Orlando

Basamat

This article reflects on exile as a key lens in Edward Said’s thought and on the links between knowledge, power, and fear. It discusses how postcolonial literary theory became “mainstream” and examines what may be lost when critical ideas are institutionalized.

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Yield-To-Maturity And The Reinvestment Of Coupon Payments Jan 2026

Yield-To-Maturity And The Reinvestment Of Coupon Payments

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This note addresses a common misconception, found in investment texts and popular investment education literature, that in order to earn the yield to maturity on a coupon bond an investor must reinvest the coupon payments. We identify a sample of text and professional sources making this claim, demonstrate that yield to maturity entails no assumption of coupon reinvestment, discuss a cause for this confusion and offer a possible remedy.

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The Influence Of University Investment Education On Asset Allocation Jan 2026

The Influence Of University Investment Education On Asset Allocation

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Using survey data from students at three universities, we examine the influence of an Investments Analysis course on student perception of the ideal asset allocation for a retirement portfolio. Consistent with previous studies that examine financial education in the workplace, a critical outcome of university investment education is the apparent alleviation of a conservative bias that is typically prevalent among uninformed investors. This change results in an increasing willingness to take larger stock positions, which produces higher expected returns and larger portfolio betas. Most importantly, however, the net effect is more efficient portfolios, particularly for those students who begin with …

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Effects Of Student Response System In University Foundation Courses – Excerpts From A Doctoral Study, Grace M. Tuttle Jan 2026

Effects Of Student Response System In University Foundation Courses – Excerpts From A Doctoral Study, Grace M. Tuttle

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This paper is an excerpt on the author's doctoral study titled “Effects of Student Response System in University Foundations (UF) Courses.” This quasi-quantitative study explored the effects of iClicker technology on students’ academic performance based on final course grades, participation, and attendance in university foundation courses. This study evaluated data from 7,812 participants between spring 2017 to autumn 2019. The logistic regression analysis showed that for students in the clicker group, the odds of earning a final grade of A or B increased by a factor of 1.28 for each one standard deviation increase in participation z-score, controlling for other …

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Nasa: Space Program Benefits Jan 2026

Nasa: Space Program Benefits

Ron Carleton Papers

Information packet of NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Space Program Benefits, detailing innovations or "spinoffs" that have come from the Space Program.

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Nasa: Information Summaries Jan 2026

Nasa: Information Summaries

Ron Carleton Papers

Information booklet from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) about the Mercury to Apollo-Soyuz. The booklet details each of the space missions that NASA has conducted from Project Mercuty in 1959 to the Apollo-Soyuz in 1975. Pubilshed November 1985.

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Create @ State 2013, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro Jan 2026

Create @ State 2013, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Create@State

No abstract provided.

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Of Blood And The Buddha: A Nichiren Primer On Counseling Clients, John W. Teeter Jr. Jan 2026

Of Blood And The Buddha: A Nichiren Primer On Counseling Clients, John W. Teeter Jr.

Florida Journal of International Law

Should you pray when you bleed? More specifically, should a Buddhist woman refrain from chanting and reciting from the Lotus Sutra during her menstrual cycle? This was the query fielded by the fiery prophet Nichiren in 1264 in Kamakura, Japan. Nichiren's response, however, is far more than a doctrinal resolution of an esoteric theological uncertainty. To the contrary, Nichiren's advice is a model of analysis, common sense, and compassion that today's attorneys would be wise to emulate. As set forth below, Nichiren's cautious, sensitive, and pragmatic approach provides an enlightened template on how we can best counsel our clients in …

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The Consequences Of Attempted Human Perfection: Genetic Enhancement And Why It Is Immoral, Kiran S. Sajnani Jan 2026

The Consequences Of Attempted Human Perfection: Genetic Enhancement And Why It Is Immoral, Kiran S. Sajnani

Mako: NSU Undergraduate Student Journal

In the field of biomedical ethics, genetic enhancement—the alteration of human DNA to increase characteristics beyond normal function—is a highly contested topic. Genetic enhancement presents serious ethical issues, especially when gene therapy seeks to treat or prevent disease. This paper makes the consequentialist case that genetic enhancement, whether somatic or germline, is intrinsically unethical because of its ethical, societal, and systemic ramifications. The autonomy of future persons is violated by germline enhancement, which also runs the risk of deepening socioeconomic gaps and escalating intergenerational inequity. Even though it only affects the individual, somatic augmentation undermines human diversity and agency by …

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Agentic Workflow For Translating Natural Language Intent Into Validated, Structured Business Rules, Marim Ganaba, Jeannette Gatlin, Jarred Smeltzer, Dearbhla Moore, Alex Pineda Jan 2026

Agentic Workflow For Translating Natural Language Intent Into Validated, Structured Business Rules, Marim Ganaba, Jeannette Gatlin, Jarred Smeltzer, Dearbhla Moore, Alex Pineda

Defensive Publications Series

Conventional enterprise systems for creating business rules, for example sales compensation plans, can involve manual translation of strategic intent into structured configurations. This process may place a cognitive burden on users. The disclosed technology describes a system employing an orchestrated, multi-agent workflow to assist in this translation. A planning orchestrator agent can receive a user's intent in natural language, deconstruct the goal, and delegate sub-tasks to specialized agents. These agents may perform functions such as knowledge retrieval, parameter synthesis using retrieval-augmented generation, and compliance validation. The workflow can generate a validated, structured data object, such as a javascript object notation …

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Multi-Agent System For Interactive Modeling And Lifecycle Management Of Business Rules, Marim Ganaba, Jeannette Gatlin, Dearbhla Moore, Jarred Smeltzer, Allen Kempson, Kenneth Ishikawa, Alex Pineda Jan 2026

Multi-Agent System For Interactive Modeling And Lifecycle Management Of Business Rules, Marim Ganaba, Jeannette Gatlin, Dearbhla Moore, Jarred Smeltzer, Allen Kempson, Kenneth Ishikawa, Alex Pineda

Defensive Publications Series

Certain methods for managing complex business rules, such as those in enterprise performance management, may rely on fragmented tools that can lack the capability to model cross-domain impacts of proposed changes, which can lead to siloed decision-making and manual governance processes. Systems and methods are described that can utilize a multi-agent architecture to provide an interactive simulation environment, or sandbox, for business rule lifecycle management. Specialized software agents, for example data quality, planning, governance, and triage agents, may collaborate to support tasks from initial data validation to automated testing and deployment. A simulation engine can provide feedback on the cascading …

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Hierarchical Pre-Decoding Reliability Verification Of Generative Model Latent States, Neel Mohbe Jan 2026

Hierarchical Pre-Decoding Reliability Verification Of Generative Model Latent States, Neel Mohbe

Defensive Publications Series

Reliability verification for generative artificial intelligence models may be constrained by a reliance on post-hoc, token-level analysis, which can be computationally inefficient. Described are systems and methods for a pre-decoding verification architecture that can operate on the internal latent states of a generative model before output tokens are sampled. The architecture can use a hierarchical cascade of checks, for example, beginning with a fast linear classifier, escalating ambiguous inputs to a non-linear density-based evaluator, and routing complex cases to specialized expert models. A feedback mechanism can propagate classifications from the expert models backward to update and refine the faster, earlier …

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Cv: Esther Nieves (Social Work), Esther Nieves Jan 2026

Cv: Esther Nieves (Social Work), Esther Nieves

Social Work Department Faculty Curricula Vitae

No abstract provided.

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Developing Transformative Pilgrimage Tourism: Seeing The Relationship Between Stakeholders In Religion-Based Tourism Practices In Quds, Indonesia, I Nyoman Ruja Jan 2026

Developing Transformative Pilgrimage Tourism: Seeing The Relationship Between Stakeholders In Religion-Based Tourism Practices In Quds, Indonesia, I Nyoman Ruja

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The growing transformation of the pilgrimage tourism sector worldwide cannot be separated from relations between community groups, pilgrims and the tourism industry. This research analyses the relationships between stakeholders involved in faith-based tourism practices in Quds, Indonesia. Through a qualitative approach, we investigate, in Quds the interactions and relationships of multiple parties involved in the religious tourism industry, including pilgrims, government, local communities and related institutions. This research collects data through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. The results show that stakeholder relationships significantly create a sustainable religious tourism experience in Quds. Collaboration between pilgrims, the government and local …

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The Power Of Historical And Creative Tourism For Sustainable Development Goals: Baan Khamkerm – Nong Seaeng Catholic Church, Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand, Preedaree Sirirat, Arnunnit Manorom, Supatcharee Boonprachoom Jan 2026

The Power Of Historical And Creative Tourism For Sustainable Development Goals: Baan Khamkerm – Nong Seaeng Catholic Church, Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand, Preedaree Sirirat, Arnunnit Manorom, Supatcharee Boonprachoom

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This study aims to develop a historical tourism route tracing seventeenth century French missionaries of Baan Khamkerm-Nong Seaeng in Nakhon Phanom Province while developing local storytelling and creating digital media from information of historical value transferred through locals’ identities. Saint Joseph’s Church in Baan Khamkerm is the oldest church in upper-northeastern Thailand. To protect this historical site, emerging disciplines have offered potential communication tools for stronger heritage management. The research design is based on Participatory Action Research (PAR) which collects data from five groups of key representatives from the community of tourism stakeholders: 1) local community; 2) tourism policymakers; 3) …

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Drivers Of Religious Tourism In Nigeria: Spiritual And Secular Reasons, Olakunle Shakur Olawuyi Dr, Oluwafunminiyi Wasiu Raheem Dr, Adetunji Sunday Oni Dr. Jan 2026

Drivers Of Religious Tourism In Nigeria: Spiritual And Secular Reasons, Olakunle Shakur Olawuyi Dr, Oluwafunminiyi Wasiu Raheem Dr, Adetunji Sunday Oni Dr.

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religious activities have been engaged by humans since time immemorial. People have moved from one location to the other to offer sacrifices and engage in ritual activities around sacred objects and spiritual beings. Travelling to religious destinations with an inclination towards tourism is essentially a form of niche tourism. This study investigated the drivers of religious tourism in Nigeria from the prism of spiritual and mundane reasons. Data were retrieved via key informant interviews conducted at Osun-Osogbo Groove and Olokun Temple in southwest Nigeria. The findings revealed that the religious beliefs of most tourists who visit the Osun Grove and …

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Religious Travel To Sunan Papak’S Sacred Tomb, Garut , West Java, Indonesia, Yunus Winoto, Ninis Agustini Damayani, Teguh Husodo, Ute Lies Siti Khadijah, Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan, Falih Ijlal Septian Jan 2026

Religious Travel To Sunan Papak’S Sacred Tomb, Garut , West Java, Indonesia, Yunus Winoto, Ninis Agustini Damayani, Teguh Husodo, Ute Lies Siti Khadijah, Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan, Falih Ijlal Septian

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The sacred grave of Raden Wangsa Muhammad, or ‘Sunan Papak’, is an important holy grave in Garut, Indonesia, attracting many visitors as religious tourists. The study aimed to find out the spiritual elements in a series of pilgrimage activities, the views of pilgrims on sacred objects and sacred water, and the motivations of pilgrims who come to Sunan Papak’s holy tomb. This study uses a quantitative approach via survey research. Data were collected using questionnaires, observations, expert interviews and documentation studies. Based on the results of the study, it was revealed that in carrying out this pilgrimage, various religious elements …

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Segmenting Religious Tourists Based On Google Maps Reviews Using Latent Semantic Analysis And Hierarchical Clustering, Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam, Jyothi Mallya, Kartikeya Bolar Jan 2026

Segmenting Religious Tourists Based On Google Maps Reviews Using Latent Semantic Analysis And Hierarchical Clustering, Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam, Jyothi Mallya, Kartikeya Bolar

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Researchers in the tourism industry and academics are interested in analysing and extracting conclusions from user-generated data because they offer valuable insights into visitors’ motives, experiences, and consumption behaviour. However, religious tourists’ data have rarely been explored specifically in segmentation studies. Therefore, this study aims to segment religious tourists based on their Google Map reviews using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and hierarchical clustering. These analyses have resulted in three distinct segments: heritage explorers, aesthetes, and self-transcendence seekers. While heritage explorers are interested in learning about the cultural and historical significance of a site, aesthetes appreciate its beauty and art, while …

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Revisiting Tourism-Led-Growth Hypothesis In The Presence Of Structural Breaks: The Case Of Spiritual Tourism And Economic Growth In Saudi Arabia, Isiaka Akande Raifu, Lukman Lasisi Jan 2026

Revisiting Tourism-Led-Growth Hypothesis In The Presence Of Structural Breaks: The Case Of Spiritual Tourism And Economic Growth In Saudi Arabia, Isiaka Akande Raifu, Lukman Lasisi

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The study explores the Tourism-led-growth Hypothesis (TLGH) with a focus on spiritual tourism and economic growth in Saudi Arabia. Using the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) for 28 years of annual data, we evaluated the impact of religious tourism on economic growth in the presence of structural breaks. Our analysis yielded promising results; thus, we make 4 important contributions to the literature. First, we establish the presence of a positive relationship between spiritual tourism and economic growth across all our models. Second, we discover that domestic pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia is a modest contributor to economic growth compared with international …

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Cherry Grading Screening Based On Deep Learning-Driven Heatmap Regression, Song Xuejun, Gao Lei, Guo Xiaoxia Jan 2026

Cherry Grading Screening Based On Deep Learning-Driven Heatmap Regression, Song Xuejun, Gao Lei, Guo Xiaoxia

Food and Machinery

[Objective] To solve the problems of low efficiency and high cost in cherry screening. [Methods] A heatmap regression method HRNet-YT was proposed to automatically identify cherry size and the presence of fruit stems, thereby realizing efficient screening. HRNet-YT utilized multiple parallel subnetworks to achieve multi-scale information fusion while maintaining high-resolution representations, ensuring the spatial accuracy of heatmaps for stem and calyx keypoints. By leveraging heatmap techniques to capture rich contextual information and optimizing the loss function, the model's robustness and precision were enhanced. [Results] HRNet-YT-W48 (384×288) achieves a detection precision of 87.3% and an keypoint average precision (AP, OKS =0.5) …

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A Hyperspectral Non-Destructive Method For Detecting Damage Of Solanum Muricatum Fruits, Bai Xiaoyi, Wu Jinfeng, Zhang Jinheng, Zhou Bing Jan 2026

A Hyperspectral Non-Destructive Method For Detecting Damage Of Solanum Muricatum Fruits, Bai Xiaoyi, Wu Jinfeng, Zhang Jinheng, Zhou Bing

Food and Machinery

[Objective] To establish a non-destructive method for precise identification of mechanical damage in Solanum muricatum fruits. [Methods] The S.muricatum fruit samples exhibiting varying degrees of damage are induced by free-fall collisions, and then the hyperspectral data of each sample are collected. The effects of four preprocessing methods on the performance of the random forest (RF) classification model are evaluated. The sequential projection algorithm (SPA) and competitive adaptive reweighting algorithm (CARS) are used to extract the feature wavelengths of the preprocessed spectral data. Three machine learning-based classification models-partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), support vector machine (SVM), and random forest-are constructed and …

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Challenges To The Internationalisation Of Small And Medium-Sized Food Crops-Based Enterprises (Smes) In Tanzania, Omari Khalifa Mbura, Sumaya M. Kagoya Jan 2026

Challenges To The Internationalisation Of Small And Medium-Sized Food Crops-Based Enterprises (Smes) In Tanzania, Omari Khalifa Mbura, Sumaya M. Kagoya

Business Management Review

This paper examines the salient attributes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalisation of food crops. Using the explanatory research design the study applied the International Entrepreneurship theory and the Uppsala internationalisation process model, to specifically link the influence of internal, psychic distance and external factors to SMEs internationalisation of food crops in Tanzania. It reports the findings of a study that used a structured questionnaire to collect data from 80 randomly selected food crop exporting firms in Tanzania. The results subjected to multiple regression analysis indicate that out of the three constructs, internal and psychic distance factors had a …

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Fsec Meeting Minutes January 23, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Jan 2026

Fsec Meeting Minutes January 23, 2026, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Boiling A Frog: Pre-Adaptive Processes And Prison Riot Dynamics, Hayden P. Smith Jan 2026

Boiling A Frog: Pre-Adaptive Processes And Prison Riot Dynamics, Hayden P. Smith

Faculty Publications

This study explores the adaptive mechanisms and survival strategies deployed by incarcerated individuals during the Lee Prison Riot of April 15, 2018. Drawing solely on in-depth interviews with 25 incarcerated men (predominantly Black, aged 25–61) at Lee Correctional Institution, and utilizing the importation and deprivation models as analytical frameworks, the analysis reveals that early-life trauma, neighborhood disruption, and the construction of survival pride significantly shape inmate adaptation. In particular, the research documents how inmates are channeled into “high‑alpha dorms” where collective violence becomes both predictable and deeply ambiguous, and where post‑riot behaviors signal the emergence of a “new normal” in …

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Strategies To Reduce The Physician Documentation Burden In Adult Primary Care, Glenda Cascalla Jan 2026

Strategies To Reduce The Physician Documentation Burden In Adult Primary Care, Glenda Cascalla

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Primary care physicians face high rates of burnout, with electronic health record (EHR) documentation identified ass a significant contributing factor. EHR systems consume substantial physician time, diverting attention from meaningful patient interactions toward administrative tasks and increasing documentation burden. The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate best practices for minimizing the documentation burden on primary care providers. The review question centered on how best practices can be implemented by healthcare administrators to reduce the physician documentation burden in primary care. This integrative review used the sociotechnical systems theory framework to identify and evaluate effective strategies to alleviate …

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