Cabrini Scribe Trial - a pilot study of the relationship between emergency department scribes and emergency physician productivity using locally trained, Australian scribes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: emergency physician efficiency; medical scribe training costs; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12615000607572
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Katie Walker

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-06-10
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Patient encounters:
All patients seen during scribed shifts and scribed patient encounters during the trial period including any where the scribe was supposed to be present but wasn't. If the scribe was asked to leave an encounter by the patient or physician the encounter will be included in the analysis.

Scribe:
The scribe/s enrolled to participate will be all those hired to train and work as scribes at Cabrini ED during the study period.

Physicians:
FACEMs working on a permanent full-time or part-time contract at Cabrini Emergency Department

Exclusion Criteria

FACEMs unwilling to work with a scribe or unwilling to consent to the study
FACEMs working less than 1 shift per week
Primary investigator of the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Data on trainer physician and physician patients seen per hour in similar circumstances at the same Emergency Department in close time proximity to the intervention sampling.<br>Mean and standard deviation of the number of patients seen by each physician per hour.[Intervention:<br>Trainer physician: September 1st to november 30th 2015<br>Physician/s: December 1st 2015 to May 31st 2016<br>Control: January 1st to August 31st 2015]