Mounting paperwork demands and other time and productivity pressures can lead to physician burnout, which affects as many as one in three doctors, recent studies have shown.
Doctors huff and puff about the squadrons of workers they have had to hire to meet the paperwork demands of managed care.
Once lauded as health care's frontline clinicians, primary care practitioners — general internists, family physicians, geriatricians, general pediatricians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants — are instead struggling with growing paperwork demands, inadequate and misaligned reimbursement and dwindling numbers of providers.
Only one-third felt they had the time to fully communicate with and to treat all patients, and 60percentt felt that paperwork demands resulted in less time spent with patients.
We health care professionals, already adapted to the priority of volume and productivity, experience 10-hour-plus days, gulp coffee or grab lunch while working, and "donate" private weekend time in the futile effort to catch up on swamping paperwork demands.
Ronda J. Winnecour, who as the Chapter 13 trustee in Pittsburgh oversees the bankruptcy process in that area, had accused Countrywide of making inaccurate claims, filing needless paperwork, demanding improper fees and charges, and losing or destroying more than $500,000 in checks from homeowners in foreclosure.
If you're suspicious about a certain stock, then go to www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar. That's the Securities & Exchange Commission's Edgar database chockablock with annual reports, prospectuses and all the other paperwork demanded of public companies.
There can be some complex and Draconian rules when it comes to property and vehicle ownership, as well as bizarre registration and paperwork demands.
Paperwork was cited as a major hurdle, even though the limited number of regulatory obstacles in Japan would be expected to lessen paperwork demands.
Service/treatment systems' limited aftercare options, inadequate services to address medical and psychiatric comorbidities [ 2, 13], overwhelming paperwork demands, [ 6] and poor integration between all phases of care from detoxification to community reintegration have also been noted.
