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13.1minutes per visit on notes
Physicians who mostly used copy/paste spent more time on notes, at an average of 13.1 minutes per visit.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“while those using mostly copy/paste ( n =23,426) spent more time on notes ... average 13.1 min per visit”
Note composition strategies and physician time in the Epic EHR (note writing by transcription, dictation, SmartTools and copy/paste), Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2023.
Open the original (DOI 10.1007/s11606-022-07834-5)- What it measures
- The comparison group for dictation users in the same Epic analysis.
- What it does not show
- Association, adjusted in the model. Copy/paste use is not the same as typing, so this is not a measure of typing speed.
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