Quantifying EHR and Policy Factors Associated with the Gender Productivity Gap in Ambulatory, General Internal Medicine.
Huan LiLisa RotensteinMolly M JefferyHyung PaekBidisha NathBrian L WilliamsRobert M McLeanRichard GoldsteinTeryl K NuckolsLalima HoqEdward R MelnickPublished in: Journal of general internal medicine (2023)
Increased team support, briefer documentation, and the 2021 E/M code change were associated with higher physician productivity. The E/M code change may have preferentially benefited women physicians by incentivizing time-intensive activities such as medical decision-making, preventive care discussion, and patient counseling that women physicians have historically spent more time performing.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- healthcare
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- decision making
- palliative care
- climate change
- electronic health record
- mental health
- pregnancy outcomes
- quality improvement
- public health
- blood pressure
- cervical cancer screening
- breast cancer risk
- insulin resistance
- type diabetes
- pregnant women
- smoking cessation
- metabolic syndrome
- skeletal muscle