Multi-centre medical scribe study - testing scribes in Victorian public Emergency Departments

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Emergency health care provision; Emergency consultation documentation quality; Productivity of Emergency doctors using dictatation systems to write medical notes; Stress levels of Emergency Doctors working clinical shifts; Door to doctor time for patients when the doctor is an Emergency Doctor performing a medical triage role; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616000618459
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Katherine Walker

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-05-12
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 800

Inclusion Criteria

Emergency department doctors:
working at each site during the sampling time period
working at least two clinical shifts per week
performing a clinical patient consultation role
either consultants or senior registrars

Exclusion Criteria

Doctor unwilling to consent to participate

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emergency doctor productivity (patients per hour per doctor) working with a scribe, compared to working without a scribe.<br><br>This will be measured by integrating 3 sources of information from 3 databases.<br>1. Electronic metadata collected during usual care for each patient from each ED<br>(demorgraphics (age, gender), triage category, arrival and departure time from the ED, name of physician allocated to the patient)<br><br>2. Doctor's rosters<br><br>3. Scribe's rosters[August 2016 to October 2017]