Medical Scribes, Provider and Patient Experience, and Patient Throughput: a Trial in an Academic General Internal Medicine Practice

Medical scribes have been proposed as a solution to the problems of excessive documentation, work-life balance, and burnout facing general internists. However, their acceptability to patients and effects on provider experience have not been tested in a real-world model of effectiveness. To measure the effect of medical scribes on patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, and provider productivity. Quasi-experimental difference-in-differences...