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

• Main Authors: Anastasia Pozdnyakova Piersa (Author), Neda Laiteerapong (Author), Sandra A. Ham (Author), Felipe Fernandez del Castillo (Author), Sachin Shah (Author), Deborah L. Burnet (Author), Wei Wei Lee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...