Table 3.
Identified measurement characteristics from study findings
| Documentation Burden Concepts | Measurement Constructs | |
|---|---|---|
| Effort | EHR usage and workload | |
| Clinical documentation/review | ||
| EHR work afterhours and remotely | ||
| Administrative tasks (eg, inbox management) | ||
| Cognitively cumbersome work (eg, multitasking) | ||
| Fragmentation of workflow | ||
| Patient interaction | ||
| Time | Average time spent | |
| Proportion or percentage of time spent | ||
| Binary of timeliness of completion (eg, documenting within shift or policy time frame) | ||
| Activity rate | ||
| Units of analysis | Clinically-oriented units of analysis | Temporally-oriented units of analysis |
| Encounter | Seconds | |
| Minutes | ||
| Provider | Minutes | |
| Patient | Seconds | |
| Minutes | ||
| Event/Task | Seconds | |
| Minutes | ||
| Hours | ||
| Shifts | ||
| Days | ||
| Weeks | ||
| Months | ||
Note: constructs and units are not intended to be comprehensive of all possibilities but rather reflect content identified in scoping review.