Impact of a medical scribe on clinical efficiency and quality in an academic general internal medicine practice

Abstract Background Scribes have been proposed as an intervention to decrease physician electronic health record (EHR) workload and improve clinical quality. We aimed to assess the impact of a scribe on clinical efficiency and quality in an academic internal medicine practice. Methods Six faculty ph...

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Main Authors: Anastasia Pozdnyakova Piersa, Neda Laiteerapong, Sandra A. Ham, Felipe Fernandez del Castillo, Sachin Shah, Deborah L. Burnet, Wei Wei Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06710-y