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The setting was a 4-team, 80-bed general internal medicine clinical teaching unit at a large urban academic hospital. The quality of clinical documentation was assessed using the QNOTE instrument (best possible score\u2009=\u2009100), and word counts were assessed for free-text sections of notes.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: Twenty-one electronic-paper note pairs (42 notes) written by 21 authors were randomly drawn from a pool of 303 eligible notes. Overall note quality was significantly higher in electronic vs paper notes (mean 90 vs 69, P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.0001). The quality of free-text subsections (History of Present Illness and Impression and Plan) was significantly higher in the electronic vs paper notes (mean 93 vs 78, P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.0001; and 89 vs 77, P\u2009=\u2009.001, respectively). The History of Present Illness subsection was significantly longer in electronic vs paper notes (mean 172.4 vs 92.4 words, P\u2009=\u2009.0001).<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusions: An electronic admission documentation system improved both the quality of free-text content and the overall quality of admission notes. 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