A structural change in the health care provider EHR progress note from SOAP to APSO format was feasible and generally well received.
Does changing EHR progress notes from SOAP to APSO format reduce the time health care providers take to answer questions?
Transitioning EHR progress notes from the traditional SOAP format to the APSO format is feasible and well received by providers, although it may not significantly change the time required to extract clinical information.
detect a difference in the time health care providers took to answer questions from APSO vs SOAP notes.Further studies are needed to determine whether these outpatient findings at one center can apply to another, or to inpatient or emergency department settings, or even to radiology and pathology reports.Readability of EHR notes will be increasingly important as more organizations adopt EHRs.This study demonstrates that a structural change in the health care provider EHR progress note, from SOAP to APSO format, is feasible and generally well received.
Murphy et al. (Mon,) reported a other. APSO format EHR progress notes vs. SOAP format notes was evaluated on Time health care providers took to answer questions. A structural change in the health care provider EHR progress note from SOAP to APSO format was feasible and generally well received.