The impact of scribes in an academic pediatric emergency department

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.

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Munaza Rizvi et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Aug.

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. 2023 Aug;30(8):874-876.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14690. Epub 2023 Feb 28.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: documentation; emergency department; medical scribes; relative value units.

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