Doctor-Parent Interactions With Medical Scribes
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Burnout, Professional
In brief
The purpose of the study is to collect outcomes related to a quality improvement project assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of a medical scribe program in which medical scribes accompany clinicians during their visits with patients. The medical scribes involved in the project are professional scribes and medical students who will accompany clinicians during patient visits and takes notes, enabling the clinician to engage more directly with the patient.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03473353
- Run by
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- People needed
- 732
- Starts
- 2017-09-30
- Expected to finish
- 2022-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-01-10
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Attending clinicians with privileges at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital and/or the Penn State Hershey Internal Medicine. This may include attending MDs or DOs and Nurse Practitioners (NPs).
- Voluntary participation in the medical scribe QI project.
- Consents to participate in the study.
You may not qualify if…
- Clinician is not participating in the scribe project.
- Clinician does not consent to participate in the research portion of this project.
- Patient Participants
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient (if 18 years or older) or parent/guardian (P/G) of patient being seen by a participating clinician.
- Patient was not seen by a resident or medical student prior to meeting with clinician.
- English speaking/reading.
- Patient or P/G has capacity to consent.
- Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient is seeing a clinician who has not consented to participate in the research portion of the study.
- Non-English speaking/reading.
- Patient or P/G lacks capacity to consent.
Where it is running
- Hope Drive Pediatric Clinic — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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