An American Medical Association (AMA) survey is giving physicians an opportunity to provide input on rules and regulations that increase their administrative costs and paperwork burden, or that interfere with patient care without a significant benefit to patients and/or the government. The AMA developed the survey in response to an Executive Order issued by President Obama on Jan. 18, 2011, calling on all government agencies to promote “retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.” Survey results will be used to advocate to the administration for the need to reduce these paperwork hassles and the associated administrative complexity that take time away from patient care and do nothing to advance quality. ?Take the online 0 survey before it closes Monday, Feb. 28.
