Medical Record Closure Practices of Physicians Before and After the Use of Medical Scribes

Sarah T Florig; Sky Corby; Tanuj Devara; Nicole G Weiskopf; Vishnu Mohan; Jeffrey A Gold

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.13558

Medical Record Closure Practices of Physicians Before and After the Use of Medical Scribes

JAMA. 2022 Oct 4;328(13):1350-1352. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.13558.

Authors

Sarah T Florig¹, Sky Corby¹, Tanuj Devara¹, Nicole G Weiskopf², Vishnu Mohan², Jeffrey A Gold¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
² Department of Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This study uses electronic health record data to evaluate medical record closure outcomes before and after the use of medical scribes at a large academic medical center.

MeSH terms

Documentation* / methods
Electronic Health Records / organization & administration
Humans
Medical Record Administrators* / organization & administration
Medical Records*
Patient Satisfaction
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / organization & administration
Professional Practice* / organization & administration

Plain language summary

MeSH terms

Grants and funding