EXHIBIT 1.
Average hours spent on various activities per physician per day, 2011–14
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| Activity | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
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| Progress notes | 2.10 | 1.14 | 1.33 | 0.86 | 0.52 | 0.72 | 0.13 | 0.37 | 0.11 | 0.36 |
| Telephone encounters | 0.58 | 0.44 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.49 | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.15 |
| Secure messages | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.11 |
| Prescription refills | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
| Other | 0.18 | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.10 |
| Subtotal | 3.17 | 1.36 | 1.42 | 0.89 | 1.40 | 0.95 | 0.14 | 0.38 | 0.21 | 0.52 |
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| Ambulatory care visits | 3.08 | 1.65 | ||||||||
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| TOTAL TIME | ||||||||||
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| Total logged time | 6.25 | 2.15 | ||||||||
| Total scheduled time for visits | 7.45 | 2.31 | ||||||||
SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from access logs embedded in the electronic health records of 471 physicians. NOTES See the text for descriptions of the desktop medicine activities. Total scheduled time for visits is the time between the beginning of the first scheduled face-to-face visit and the end of the last visit. Hours may not sum to total because of rounding. SD is standard deviation.