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22.3percentage points
On morning shifts, nurses and midwives reported about 22.3 percentage points more documentation time than observers measured.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- What it measures
- The gap between the share of morning shift that nurses reported documenting and the share that observers recorded on the same kind of shift.
- How it is calculated
- 50.4 - 28.1 = 22.3
Calculated from
- Nurses and midwives reported spending 50.4 percent of morning shifts on documentation, far above the 28.1 percent that observers measured.
- In a Western Australian hospital, observers found nurses and midwives spent 28.1 percent of morning shifts, 22.7 percent of afternoon shifts and 20.9 percent of night shifts on clinical documentation.