Podium Presentation Title: The Impact of Medical Scribes in a High-Volume Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Clinic

To describe the impact of scribes in terms. patient experience, clinic productivity, and physician well being a high-volume orthopedic sports medicine clinic. Surveys containing validated outcome measures were used to assess influence medical on function. The items. included surveys related education, trainee well-being, hours spent documenting, etc. These collected from patients, nurses surgeons during an 8 month time period, 6 months without scribes, 2 with scribes. average per half day documenting by after last was seen 104 minutes non-scribe days 25 scribe days. Additionally, encounters estimated be 174 51 surgeon single assessment numeric evaluation (SANE) score 48.1 89.3 overall 73.4 out 100 87.7 Patients rated their experience as 4.8 5 average. did not report significant change rating or wait between We found use have favorable physicians, nurses, trainees. Notably, significantly reduced documentation surgeons. results this study could impetus improve workplace satisfaction decrease burnout among healthcare providers.