Fact · Dictation for work and study
-0.36hours per day on notes
In the Wisconsin randomized trial, time spent on notes fell by 0.36 hours per day with ambient AI use, a secondary measure.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“time spent on notes decreased (-0.36 hours per day; 95% CI, -0.55 to -0.17)”
A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being, Afshar M et al., NEJM AI, 2025, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1056/aioa2500945)- What it measures
- A secondary measure in the same trial, alongside documentation quality scored with the PDSQI-9 instrument.
- What it does not show
- Secondary outcome. The interval stays below zero, but a sensitivity check on another measure of work outside work lost significance once extreme values were removed, so the authors' caveats matter.