The "SOAP" -- subjective, objective, assessment, plan -- format has been in common use for decades as a way of organizing physician progress notes in medical records, but it was created during a ...

EHR progress notes are intended to do just what they sound like — give physicians a chance to provide an updated analysis of a patient’s condition and progress. For clinicians, the laborious process ...

In this study, the authors demonstrate widespread adoption and satisfaction with the novel APSO (Assessment, Plan, Subjective, Objective) format for progress notes at a large, integrated health ...

The objectives of this session were to define note bloat, identify unnecessary contributors to clinical note length, describe methods to decrease extraneous data and improve the readability of ...