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cord-253189-uba6dy08	Walker, Katie	The evidence base for scribes and the disruptions of COVID-19	2020-09-21		.txt	text/plain	1700	108	57	There has been a major expansion of scribe programs in the United States of America (USA) both in terms of their employment locations, now moving outside the emergency department (ED), and numbers, despite attempts to streamline documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) so that clerical support is no longer required. Many studies note that physicians go home soon after completion of their shift when working with a scribe but can't report the magnitude of the impact. Impact of COVID19 on scribe programs 2020 has provided significant challenges for EM and for all other medical settings as well. In summary, there is now some limited economic evidence for using scribes, with small improvements seen in physician productivity and increased per-patient revenue in the USA, but not patient flow. Impact of scribes on emergency medicine doctors' productivity and patient throughput: multicentre randomised trial An economic evaluation of the costs of training a medical scribe to work in Emergency Medicine	./cache/cord-253189-uba6dy08.txt	./txt/cord-253189-uba6dy08.txt