Doctors need more time for administrative work
Published: Monday, Nov 11th 2024, 14:00
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In a survey, Swiss doctors complain about increasing administrative tasks and bureaucratization. The administration takes up a lot of time.
In acute care, the average daily time spent on documentation in patient files has risen from 114 minutes to just under 120 minutes. This is the result of a survey conducted by the JRC Bern research institute, which was published on Monday by "Medinside", an online platform for the healthcare sector.
The increase in documentation work in psychiatry is particularly significant, JRC Bern has found: The average daily workload in this area has risen from 91 to 100 minutes. The survey results can be found on the JRC website.
There was less time for patients: those surveyed estimated that the time spent on patient-related activities had fallen by around eleven minutes to around 102 minutes. In contrast, more time was spent on ward rounds. Doctors in acute care estimated that they spent an average of 54 minutes a day on visits, three minutes more than in the same period last year.
A quarter of the outpatient doctors surveyed consider writing medical records and reports to be the most time-consuming requirement of the authorities and insurance companies. By contrast, inpatient doctors in acute somatics, psychiatry and rehabilitation consider the processing of requests to be the most time-consuming, the report continues.
According to the survey, both outpatient and inpatient doctors spend a lot of time on documentation, queries and complaints from insurance companies. The majority of those surveyed felt that the effort required to comply with official regulations was "rather" or "definitely" unnecessary.
1707 people took part in the representative survey, which is conducted annually by the Bern Research Institute on behalf of the FMH, the Swiss Medical Association. Of these, 1324 were hospital doctors, divided into acute somatics, psychiatry and rehabilitation, and 383 were outpatient physicians.
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