{"id":6277,"date":"2021-12-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:30:00","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/12\/17\/6277\/","title":{"rendered":"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\u00a0\u2014 United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7050a4-F.gif?_=94872\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"375\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, 91.0% of office-based physicians spent time outside normal office hours documenting clinical care: 17.0% spent &lt;1 hour, 41.4% spent 1\u20132 hours, 24.0% spent &gt;2 hours\u20134 hours, and 8.6% spent &gt;4 hours per day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other time categories, there was no statistically significant difference between primary care and specialist care physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Electronic Health Records Survey, 2019. National Electronic Health Records Survey public use file national weighted estimates, 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nehrs\/2019NEHRS-PUF-weighted-estimates-508.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nehrs\/2019NEHRS-PUF-weighted-estimates-508.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7050a4.htm\">http<\/a><a href=\"\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7050a4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">s:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7050a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, 91.0% of office-based physicians spent time outside normal office hours documenting clinical care: 17.0% spent &lt;1 hour, 41.4% spent 1\u20132 hours, 24.0% spent &gt;2 hours\u20134 hours, and 8.6% spent &gt;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53740,63686,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}