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. 2021 Apr 23;28(5):960–966. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocab053

Table 1.

Demographic variables

Demographic Variables Organizations n = 213 Organization % Respondents n = 25 018 Respondent %
Organization Type
 Community Health System 45 21.00% 3267 13.00%
 Large Health System 44 20.60% 7180 28.60%
 Academic Health System 40 18.70% 8941 35.60%
 Community Hospital 29 13.60% 695 2.80%
 Midsize Health System 22 10.30% 2592 10.30%
 Children’s Hospital 17 7.90% 1324 5.30%
 Ambulatory Care Group 19 8.90% 1132 4.50%
Geographic Region
 West 100 47% 4460 18%
 Midwest 94 44% 7135 29%
 Northeast 88 41% 6543 26%
 South 113 53% 6880 28%
EHR Vendor b
 Epic 148 69.20% 17 204 68.50%
 Other 81 37.90% 1060 4.20%
 Cerner 43 20.10% 3976 15.80%
 MEDITECH 32 15.00% 525 2.10%
 Allscripts 23 10.70% 1083 4.30%
 eClinicalWorks 22 10.30% 1075 4.30%
 NextGen Healthcare 11 5.10% 39 0.20%
Years Practicing Medicine
 0–4 years 1343 5.30%
 5–14 years 7789 31.00%
 15–24 years 7196 28.60%
 25+ years 8315 33.10%
Years Using the EHR
 1 year 2274 9.00%
 2 years 1818 7.20%
 3 years 1861 7.40%
 4 years 2284 9.10%
 5+ years 13 012 51.80%
Self-Reported After-hours Charting
 0-5 hours 20 912 57%
 6-15 hours 12 829 35%
 16-25 hours 2473 7%
 25+ hours 752 2%
Organizational EHR Support c
 Strongly Agree 4038 9%
 Agree 15 586 35%
 Indifferent 11 134 25%
 Disagree 8511 19%
 Strongly Disagree 5359 12%
Self-Reported Burnout
 Completely burned out 340 1%
 Symptoms of burnout won't go away 1859 7%
 Definitely burning out 5417 22%
 Under stress 11 328 45%
 No burnout 6074 24%
a

Healthcare organizations that have locations in more than 1 region are included multiple times in the geographic region counts.

b

Healthcare organizations that use more than 1 EHR vendor are included multiple times in the EHR vendor counts.

c

Agreement that organization has done a great job with EHR implementation, training, and support.