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66health care practitioners randomized
The University of Wisconsin trial randomly assigned 66 health care practitioners to three 6-week sequences of ambient AI.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Sixty-six health care practitioners were randomly assigned to three 6-week sequences of ambient AI.”
A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being, Afshar M et al., NEJM AI, 2025, Methods.
Open the original (DOI 10.1056/aioa2500945)- What it measures
- The design was a 24-week stepped-wedge, individually randomized pragmatic trial across ambulatory clinics in two states.
- What it does not show
- A small trial by number of clinicians, so the confidence intervals are wide. The abstract does not name the products used.