Sex Differences in Medical Specialist Physicians' Electronic Health Record In-Basket Workloads and the Implications for Compensation and Equity: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

Nadkarni, Ashwini; Glick, Laura; Becker, Molly; Healey, Michael; Stein, David; Heydarpour, Mahyar; Rotenstein, Lisa S · J Med Internet Res · 2026

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

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.

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