Peer-reviewed research
Implementation of speech recognition in a community-based radiology practice: effect on report turnaround times
Luciano M. Prevedello et al., Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2014 · DOI 10.1016/j.jacr.2013.07.008
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- What it is
- A before and after study at a 150-bed community hospital with no radiology training program. Speech recognition software was introduced between May and July 2011, and report turnaround times for five months before and after were compared.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed. It is a single hospital with a before and after design and no control group, and the software was introduced alongside other changes in workflow. Its value is its community setting, which large academic studies lack.
Facts taken from this source
- The authors describe a 24-fold improvement in the median radiology report turnaround after speech recognition was introduced.
“The implementation of SRS was associated with 24-fold improvement in the median radiology report TAT in a community hospital setting with no radiology trainees.”
- After speech recognition was introduced at a 150-bed community hospital, the median radiology report turnaround fell from 24 hours to 1 hour.
“Median and 80th and 95th percentile report TATs decreased multiple-fold between the preimplementation and postimplementation periods (median, from 24 to 1 hour; 80th percentile, from 60 to 10 hours; 95th percentile, from 165 to 33 hours; P < .0001).”