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

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There is a rising medical cost base in emergency medicine. There is a rising seniority of medical staff required to safely perform the role of physician in an emergency department. The currently accepted productivity of a FACEM is one patient per hour. Much of this time is spent writing and printing notes, faxing documents and contacting physicians. None of this work requires the skill set of an emergency physician and could be performed by a well-trained medical scribe or secretary. To date scribes have not been used in Australian Emergency Departments and offer a novel way of addressing emergency physician productivity without compromising the quality of emergency physician work. The degree that a medical scribe increases emergency physician productivity in emergency medicine in Australia has been investigated by this team in a pilot that lends itself to further investigation. This is a second trial to investigate whether a medical scribe would increase emergency physician efficiency

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