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2026 TrendBurden: Pulse Survey on Excessive Documentation Burden for Health Professionals!©


This survey, developed by the AMIA 25x5 Task Force, is a pivotal initiative aimed at all Health Professionals engaged in direct patient care, including MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, PTs, OTs, and PharmDs and other licensed and non-licensed staff. Our primary goal is to capture perceptions of excessive documentation burden across various healthcare disciplines annually to trend changes over time.

Columbia University IRB-AAAT4200. View IRB Approved Information Sheet.

A. Definitions:
  • i. Health Professionals = licensed (e.g., MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, PTs, OTs, and PharmDs) and non-licensed staff engaged in direct patient care
  • ii. Documentation = encompasses all data review and data capture activities during patient care delivery
  • iii. AI-based tools = are any technology that uses AI to help you to produce clinical documentation, including but not limited to those that provide summarization, audio capture directly into the record, clinical knowledge/decision support, risk identification, and early warning tools, etc.
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1.The amount of time and effort I spend documenting patient care is appropriate.(Required.)
2.I finish work later than desired or need to do work at home because of excessive documentation tasks.(Required.)
3.In the past 6 months, there has been a noticeable change in the time or effort or both needed for me to complete my documentation tasks.(Required.)
4.The effort or time required for me to complete documentation tasks impedes patient care.(Required.)
5.I find it easy to document patient care using the electronic health record.(Required.)
6.In the last 12 months, AI-based tools have influenced a noticeable change in my time or effort for documentation tasks.(Required.)
Please click 'Next' for final page with optional demographics and make sure to click 'Submit' at the bottom of the next page to complete the survey.
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