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Editorial
August 26, 2024

Methodological Considerations for Difference-in-Differences

Author Affiliations
  • 1Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island
  • 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 3Associate Editor, JAMA Internal Medicine
JAMA Intern Med. 2024;184(10):1161-1162. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4132

In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Apathy et al1 present results of difference-in-differences (DiD) with electronic health record (EHR) metadata from Epic, examining changes in EHR use and visit volume after successful, voluntary adoption of team-based documentation support (eg, scribes). They found a decrease in documentation time and increase in visit volume, with larger effects for more intensive users.

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