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Edward R Melnick, Colin P West, Bidisha Nath, Pamela F Cipriano, Cheryl Peterson, Daniel V Satele, Tait Shanafelt, Liselotte N Dyrbye, The association between perceived electronic health record usability and professional burnout among US nurses, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 28, Issue 8, August 2021, Pages 1632–1641, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab059
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Abstract
To measure nurse-perceived electronic health records (EHR) usability with a standardized metric of technology usability and evaluate its association with professional burnout.
A cross-sectional survey of a random sample of US nurses was conducted in November 2017. EHR usability was measured with the System Usability Scale (SUS; range 0–100) and burnout with the Maslach Burnout Inventory.
Among the 86 858 nurses who were invited, 8638 (9.9%) completed the survey. The mean nurse-rated EHR SUS score was 57.6 (SD 16.3). A score of 57.6 is in the bottom 24% of scores across previous studies and categorized with a grade of “F.” On multivariable analysis adjusting for age, gender, race, ethnicity, relationship status, children, highest nursing-related degree, mean hours worked per week, years of nursing experience, advanced certification, and practice setting, nurse-rated EHR usability was associated with burnout with each 1 point more favorable SUS score and associated with a 2% lower odds of burnout (OR 0.98; 95% CI, 0.97–0.99; P < .001).
Nurses rated the usability of their current EHR in the low marginal range of acceptability using a standardized metric of technology usability. EHR usability and the odds of burnout were strongly associated with a dose-response relationship.
