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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Apr 1;36(4):655–662. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0811

EXHIBIT 4.

Association between hours spent on various activities and physician characteristics

Total face-to-face visit time Total desktop medicine time


Characteristic Coefficient SE 95% CI Coefficient SE 95% CI
Years using EHR −0.02 0.02 −0.05, 0.02 −0.04**** 0.01 −0.07, −0.02
Average patient score on Charlson Comorbidity Index −0.42 0.35 −1.11, 0.27 0.15 0.30 −0.43, 0.74

PORTION OF TIME IN THE CLINIC (PERCENTAGE OF FULL-TIME-EQUIVALENT) (REF: 75% OR MORE)

50% or less FTE −0.51**** 0.14 −0.78, −0.25 −0.49**** 0.09 −0.67, −0.31
Greater than 50% and less than 75% −0.10 0.12 −0.34, 0.13 −0.21** 0.09 −0.39, −0.02

SEX (REF: FEMALE)

Male 0.07 0.14 −0.21, 0.35 −0.20** 0.09 −0.39, −0.02

RACE (REF: WHITE)

Asian 0.16 0.13 −0.10, 0.41 −0.03 0.09 −0.21, 0.15
Other 0.91** 0.39 0.14, 1.69 −0.25 0.28 −0.80, 0.30

SPECIALTY (REF: INTERNAL MEDICINE)

Family medicine −0.20 0.17 −0.54, 0.14 0.04 0.14 −0.25, 0.32
Pediatrics −0.81*** 0.27 −1.34, −0.29 −0.45** 0.22 −0.88, −0.02

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE RECOGNITION (REF: LEVEL 3)

Level 2 −0.17 0.16 −0.49, 0.15 0.04 0.12 −0.20, 0.27
Did not apply −0.44** 0.17 −0.77, −0.10 0.25* 0.14 −0.03, 0.53

YEAR (REF: 2011)

2012 −0.11** 0.04 −0.19, −0.02 0.15**** 0.03 0.09, 0.21
2013 −0.16** 0.06 −0.28, −0.03 0.02 0.05 −0.08, 0.11
2014 −0.10 0.08 −0.25, 0.06 0.34**** 0.06 0.22, 0.47

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from access logs embedded in the electronic health records of 471 physicians. NOTES The exhibit shows regression results at the provider-day level. National Committee for Quality Assurance recognition is explained in the Exhibit 3 Notes. SE is standard error. CI is confidence interval. EHR is electronic health record.

*

p < 0.10

**

p < 0.05

***

p < 0.01

****

p < 0.001