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Impact Of Patient Load On The Quality Of Electronic Medical Record Documentation, Aasems Jacob, Rishi Raj, Sayee Alagusundaramoorthy, Jing Wei, Jianrong Wu, Margaret Eng
Impact Of Patient Load On The Quality Of Electronic Medical Record Documentation, Aasems Jacob, Rishi Raj, Sayee Alagusundaramoorthy, Jing Wei, Jianrong Wu, Margaret Eng
Internal Medicine Faculty Publications
Objective:
American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommends ongoing care of 10 patients per resident however its implication is unclear. We hypothesized EMR quality to vary based on patient load and call status.
Methods:
We conducted a double-blind, single-center, retrospective observational study between 2017 and 2019 to investigate the quality and accuracy of resident documentation using the Responsible Electronic Documentation (RED) Checklist, a validated scoring system.
Results:
A total of 234 independent charts were analyzed and 80 met scoring criteria. Average patients per residents was 4, 9.1, 7.2, and 5.5 on “call” day (D0), “post-call” day (D1), “mid-call” day …