Scribes in the Emergency Department

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Scribes in the Emergency Department

Treatments: Other: Scribes

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01599910

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the effect of scribes on an academic emergency department.

Full description

This study will be a prospective before-after study with washout period of various performance measures before and after the implementation of ED scribes. We will also collect survey data to measure physician satisfaction and patient perception of scribes.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All consecutive patients during the study period
• age > 18 y/o

Exclusion criteria

• Patients seen during the washout period