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 physicians worked with one scribe at an urban academic general internal medicine clinic April through June 2017. Patient visits during the 3 months prior to intervention (baseline, n = 789), unscribed visits during the intervention (concurrent control, n = 605), and scribed visits (n = 579) were included in the study. Clinical efficiency outcomes included time to close encounter, patient time in clinic, and number of visits per clinic session. Quality outcomes included EHR note quality, rate

SUBMITTER: Piersa AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8272908 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature