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    "pk": 41812,
    "title": "The Effect of Dictation on Emergency Medicine Resident Time to Note Completion",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Timely documentation of a patient encounter is a necessary component for delivering high-quality healthcare as it has direct impacts on continuity of care. The use of voice recognition software has been integrated into the electronic health record (EHR) to increase efficiency of documentation. We aimed to investigate the impact of dictation use on emergency medicine (EM) residents’ time to note completion. </p>\n<p><strong>Methods:</strong> We conducted this study in a three-year EM residency program at an academic emergency department. Notes written in the EHR by EM residents were included for analysis. We split notes into two cohorts based on academic year: 2018-19 academic year (AY18-19); and 2021-22 academic year (AY21-22). We analyzed approximately 37,000 notes per cohort. Dictation was available to all residents in each cohort. The length of the note (measured by character count) and time to note completion (less than or greater than 24 hours) was analyzed. </p>\n<p><strong>Results:</strong> For both the AY18-19 and AY21-22, the rate of note completion within 24 hours was higher when using dictation compared to typing (odds ratio [OR] 1.3 and OR 2.9, respectively). Aggregated data of both cohorts showed 77.9% of dictated notes were completed within 24 hours compared to 70.9% of typed notes (P &lt; .001). In both cohorts, the average number of characters per note was larger if the note was dictated. For AY18-19, the average was 6,628 characters for dictated notes vs 6,136 for typed notes (P &lt; .05). Similarly, for AY21-22, the average was 6,531 vs 6,347 (P &lt; .05).  </p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The use of dictation by EM residents for note completion resulted in a higher likelihood of the note being completed within 24 hours.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Dictation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Wellness"
        },
        {
            "word": "resident"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Original Research (Limit 4000 words)",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5189t7zc",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lauren",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Willoughby",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin  University of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Hekman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin  University of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Benjamin",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Schnapp",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2025-01-11T03:58:07.842000Z",
    "date_accepted": "2025-06-09T16:37:49.615000Z",
    "date_published": "2025-11-17T13:08:00Z",
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