Sex Differences in Medical Specialist Physicians’ Electronic Health Record In-Basket Workloads and the Implications for Compensation and Equity: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
In this retrospective cross-sectional study, we assessed sex differences in in-basket messages generated by outpatient workflows among internal medicine specialists as compared to relative value units; we found that female physicians had a greater burden of in-basket work for each unit of paid clinical care.
Authors
- David E. Stein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3782-6901)
- Lisa S. Rotenstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8270-7602)
- Mahyar Heydarpour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5741-367X)
- Ashwini Nadkarni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3495-1974)
- Laura Glick
- Molly Becker
- Michael Healy
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Suffolk University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Published
- 2026-01-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/79172
- Primary Topic
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00