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Area of Science:

  • Primary Care Medicine
  • Health Informatics
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • Primary care clinicians manage substantial patient communication through electronic inboxes.
  • Factors influencing inbox volume, such as panel size and patient demographics, are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between primary care clinician panel size, full-time status, and patient socioeconomic status with inbox message volume and types.
  • To identify key drivers of primary care clinician workload related to electronic messaging.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the Epic Signal database for 86 primary care clinicians across 19 sites.
  • Employed correlation and multiple regression analyses to assess relationships between panel characteristics and inbox metrics.

Main Results:

  • A positive correlation was observed between higher panel size, full-time clinician status, and increased inbox messages.
  • Patient panels with higher socioeconomic status significantly contributed to the total number of inbox messages, particularly patient portal messages.

Conclusions:

  • Panel size, clinician full-time status, and patient socioeconomic status are significant factors influencing primary care clinician inbox workload.
  • Strategies to manage increasing inbox volume should consider panel composition and may necessitate additional staffing or protected time for clinicians.