Administrative Work and Job Role Beliefs in Primary Care Physicians: An Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews

Eric Apaydin ()

SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, 2158244019899092

Abstract: Primary care physicians face increasing amounts of administrative work (e.g., entering notes into electronic health records, managing insurance issues, delivering test results, etc.) outside of face-to-face patient visits. The objective of this study is to qualitatively describe the experience that primary care physicians have with administrative work, with an emphasis on their beliefs about their job role. I conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 family physicians and internists in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami and qualitatively analyzed themes from interview transcripts using the grounded theory approach. Two major themes concerning the relationship between primary care physicians and administrative work were discovered: (a) Administrative work was not central to primary care physicians’ job role beliefs, and (b) “below license†work should be delegated to nonphysicians. Job roles should be considered in future efforts to reduce physician administrative work in primary care.

Keywords: administrative work; primary care physicians; health policy; qualitative methods; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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