Fact · Dictation
25times fewer errors after review
Review and editing cut the error rate of dictated clinical notes from 7.4 to 0.3 errors per 100 words, about 25 times fewer.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- What it measures
- Compares the error rate of the raw speech recognition draft with the error rate of the same notes after transcriptionist editing and physician sign-off, in 217 clinical notes dictated in 2016.
- How it is calculated
- 7.4 / 0.3 = 24.7, rounded to 25
- What it does not show
- A ratio of two rounded rates from one study with professional editing; self-edited personal dictation will not necessarily reach the same final rate.
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