Scribe impacts on provider experience, operations, and teaching in an academic emergency medicine practice

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 602-610

  Hess, Jeremy J ^a   Wallenstein, Joshua ^a   Ackerman, Jeremy D ^a   Akhter, Murtaza ^b   Ander, Douglas ^a   Keadey, Matthew T ^a   Capes, James P ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; JOB SATISFACTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICS; TEACHING; WORK EXPERIENCE; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; DOCUMENTATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LENGTH OF STAY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEACHING;

EID: 84945575012     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.6.25432     Document Type: Article

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