Scribes in ambulatory practice improve patient and physician satisfaction
The increasing use of electronic medical records during the clinical encounter brings not only benefits but also barriers that may affect the doctor-patient relationship and increase the work burden of the physician. We evaluated whether the use of an electronic medical record scribe in an academic urology program would ameliorate these problems.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We randomly assigned electronic medical record scribes to the office hours of 5 academic urologists, and using surveys we evaluated patient and physician acceptance and satisfaction.
