Medical scribes: How do their notes stack up?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 155-159

  Misra Hebert, Anita D ^a   Amah, Linda ^b   Rabovsky, Andrew ^c   Morrison, Shannon ^d   Cantave, Marven ^e   Hu, Bo ^d   Sinsky, Christine A ^f   Rothberg, Michael B ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Quantitative Health Sciences ^*  (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL WRITING; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84959525169     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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