Defining Documentation Burden (DocBurden) and Excessive DocBurden for All Health Professionals: A Scoping Review

Existing literature does not distinguish between a baseline or required task load to conduct patient care resulting from usability issues (DocBurden), and the unnecessarily heavy tasks and requirements that contribute to excessive DocBurden. Our definition of excessive DocBurden explicitly acknowledges this distinction, to support development of meaningful measures for understanding and intervening on excessive DocBurden locally, nationally, and internationally.