Cabrini Scribe Trial 2014 - a study to investigate the relationship between emergency department scribes and emergency physician productivity - to compare physician productivity, billing and staff satisfaction with and without the assistance of a scribe during emergency medicine consultations

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Emergency physician efficiency; Emergency department staff satisfaction related to medical scribes; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614000360617
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Katherine Walker

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-04-04
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

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

Inclusion Criteria

All 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.
The physicians enrolled to participate will be a convenience sample of physicians available during the specified time period. They will be voluntarily consenting to participate.
The scribe used will be one trained scribe identified in advance. This scribe will work with all the physicians.

Exclusion Criteria

unscribed shifts

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Data on physician patients seen per hour in similar circumstances in close time proximity to the intervention sampling Mean and standard deviation (SD) of the number of patients seen by each physician per hour[Intervention: July 1st 2014 and onwards for a period of 6 months Control: January to June 2014 inclusive]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
billing rates per patient obtained from hospital database[Intervention: July 1st 2014 and onwards for a period of 6 months Control: January to July 2014 inclusive];patient waiting times - obtained from hospital database[Intervention: July 2014 and onwards for a period of 6 months Control: January to June 2014 inclusive];ambulance bypass times - obtained from hospital database[Intervention: July 2014 and onwards for a period of 6 months Control: January to June 2014 inclusive];complaints or adverse events - obtained from hospital database and from intervention physicians[Intervention: July 2014 and onwards for a period of 6 months Control: January to June 2014 inclusive]