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Impact of an Online Gastrointestinal Symptom History Taker on Physician Documentation and Charting Time: Pragmatic Controlled Trial

Hall, Natalie J; Berry, Sameer K; Aguilar, Jack; Brier, Elizabeth; Shah, Parth; Cheng, Derek; Herman, Jeremy; Stein, Theodore · 2021 · JMIR Formative Research

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The study found no significant effect — useful as a negative control or null benchmark for your own design.

Abstract

BackgroundA potential benefit of electronic health records (EHRs) is that they could potentially save clinician time and improve documentation by auto-generating the history of present illness (HPI) in partnership with patients prior to the clinic visit. We developed an online patient portal called AEGIS (Automated Evaluation of Gastrointestinal [GI] Symptoms) that systematically collects patient GI symptom information and then transforms the data into a narrative HPI that is available for physicians to review in the EHR prior to seeing the patient. ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare whether

Abstract by Hall, Natalie J; Berry, Sameer K; Aguilar, Jack; Brier, Elizabeth; Shah, Parth; Cheng, Derek; Herman, Jeremy; Stein, Theodore, JMIR Formative Research (2021) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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