Use clearer wording: Following each patient visit, physicians draft long semi-structured clinical summaries called SOAP notes. While invaluable to clinicians and researchers, creating digital SOAP notes is burdensome, contributing to physician burnout.
Following each patient visit, physicians must draft a detailed clinical summary called a SOAP note. Moreover, with electronic health records, these notes must be digitized. Despite the benefits of this documentation, their creation remains an onerous process, contributing to increasing physician burnout.