Table 8.

Facilitators to the electronic health record (EHR) and physician burnout.

Facilitator theme or observation	Reference(s)	Frequency, n
Presence of scribe or physician partner relieves symptoms of burnout	[38,40,46]	3
Training increases efficiency	[32,38,41]	3
Localized workflow redesign relieves symptoms of burnout	[31,39,40]	3
Local customization (eg, templates, menus) improves efficiency	[31,33]	2
Small group sessions	[28]a	2
EHR increases safety	[35,44]	2
Exercise relieves symptoms of burnout	[24]	1
Focus on mission of care relieves symptoms of burnout	[25]	1
EHR enables rapid access to information	[44]	1
Level of physician experience with EHR increases perceived usefulness of EHR	[45]	1
Institutional endorsement of EHR increases user acceptance of EHR	[41]	1
Annual vacation relieves symptoms of burnout	[24]	1
EHR decreases admission decision time	[35]	1
EHR decreases length of stay	[35]	1
EHR decreases duplicate testing	[44]	1
EHR increases speed of delivery of care	[44]	1
EHR increases accuracy of documentation	[44]	1
EHR enables computerized analysis and interpretation of data	[44]	1
Not reported	[11,26,27,29,30,34,36,37,42,43,47]	11

^aMultiple occurrences observed in one study.