To the Editor: In their article reporting the impact of medical scribes, Zallman et al.1 reported greater physician productivity with scribes due to an increase in the mean number of patients seen per hour (from 1.82 to 1.98), while also reporting that visit length and visit cycle times were approximately 2 minutes longer, on average, when scribes were used. These results seems contradictory, calling into question the validity of their measures, but this issue was not addressed in the discussion.
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