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In a small palliative medicine pilot, documentation time was significantly lower with an ambient AI scribe than with dictation for one of two residents, and showed no significant difference for the other.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“For Resident 1, the mean documentation time was significantly lower for the AI scribe compared with dictation ... However, for Resident 2, there was no significant difference in the documentation time between the AI scribe and dictation”
Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes: A Pilot Survey of Perspectives on the Utility and Documentation Burden in Palliative Medicine, James Patterson et al., Healthcare (Basel), 2025, Results, Documentation time (AI scribe vs. dictation).
Open the original (DOI 10.3390/healthcare13172118)- What it measures
- Two palliative medicine residents each used the Scribeberry ambient AI scribe and also dictated the same visits, in two one-month periods in 2024 and 2025. Documentation time was compared with paired t-tests for each resident.
- What it does not show
- Not randomized, with 17 cases that had both times and two residents. The authors call the study insufficiently powered to draw conclusions about AI scribe benefits in real-world contexts.