247 Scribes in an Academic Emergency Department Lead to Increased Charges and Decreased Down Coding
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Impact of scribes on performance indicators in the emergency department.
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0196-0644
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.07.274