Fact · Dictation software
9.5%reduction in time-in-note versus control
Physicians who used Nabla cut their time-in-note by 9.5 percent compared with the control group, the only arm with a statistically significant reduction.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Nabla users experienced a 9.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], -17.2% to -1.8%; P=0.02) decrease in time-in-note versus the control group”
Ambient AI Scribes in Clinical Practice: A Randomized Trial, Lukac PJ et al., NEJM AI, 2025, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1056/aioa2501000)- What it measures
- Nabla was used in 29.5 percent of its arm's 23,653 visits. The primary outcome was the change from baseline in logged writing time-in-note.
- What it does not show
- The confidence interval runs from 1.8 to 17.2 percent. Effects vary by specialty and by clinician, and the result is from one centre.
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