Measuring Documentation Burden in Healthcare

Measuring Documentation Burden in Healthcare: The purpose of this Technical Brief was to identify: (1) measures of documentation burden that have been developed or used across various settings and populations, including evaluation of validity, strengths, and weaknesses of these measures; (2) different perspectives on the appropriateness of different measures of documentation burden that have been applied/proposed (e.g., scalability, resource intensiveness to collect, equitable across populations); and (3) perceptions of documentation burden measurement from the perspective of healthcare professionals in different clinical roles and of patients/caregivers. This Technical Brief aims to identify: (1) measures of documentation burden, including evaluation of validity evidence, strengths, and weaknesses; (2) different perspectives on the appropriateness of different measures of documentation burden; and (3) perceptions of documentation burden from people in different clinical roles including patients/caregivers.