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96.3percent of drafts with an error
96.3 percent of the speech recognition drafts contained at least one error, against 58.1 percent after transcriptionist editing and 42.4 percent of signed notes.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Overall, 96.3% of SR notes, 58.1% of MT notes, and 42.4% of SNs contained errors.”
Analysis of Errors in Dictated Clinical Documents Assisted by Speech Recognition Software and Professional Transcriptionists, Li Zhou et al., JAMA Network Open, 2018, Abstract, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0530)- What it measures
- Share of documents with at least one error at each stage of the clinical dictation process.
- What it does not show
- Clinical notes are long and full of drug names and numbers; short everyday messages have fewer chances for an error.
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