Data from a 14-year period of physicians billing Medicare show significant increases in physician departures year over year, except for a 2-year period, according to the results of a brief analysis published online in JAMA Health Forum. “The findings may reflect multiple factors, including the greater burden of new communication methods (eg, portal messages) and demands for clinical documentation,” the authors wrote, adding that this trend concerns many in medicine and the “adequacy of the US physician workforce remains a perennial policy topic.” This study is not the first to place blame for physician exit—perhaps early retirement, too—on burdensome administrative workflows.
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