Table 1
Productivity for Speech Recognition Versus Standard Transcription in Three Groups and Selected Subsets
| Endocrinology secretaries | Psychiatry transcriptionists | Psychiatry secretaries | |||||||||
| Variable | n1 | n2 | Productivity (95% CI), %* | n1 | n2 | Productivity (95% CI), %* | n1 | n2 | Productivity (95% CI), %* | ||
| All dictation jobs | 1,301 | 1,053 | 87.3 (83.3, 92.3) | 220 | 123 | 63.3 (54.0, 74.0) | 244 | 111 | 55.8 (44.6, 68.0) | ||
| Work type | |||||||||||
| 1 | 169 | 134 | 84.2 (75.0, 94.8) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
| 2 | 142 | 138 | 89.2 (79.8, 99.1) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
| 3 | 362 | 328 | 102.5 (93.5, 115.6) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
| 4 | 326 | 210 | 82.5 (73.3, 92.4) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
| 14 | 302 | 243 | 73.2 (65.4, 80.5) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
| Slow secretaries or transcriptionists | 645 | 522 | 104.6 (100.0, 109.4) | 138 | 63 | 93.6 (85.4, 101.0) | 114 | 27 | 88.6 (73.6, 102.3) | ||
| Selected authors only | 981 | 796 | 86.6 (81.7, 93.0) | 172 | 93 | 61.6 (50.9, 73.6) | 200 | 88 | 52.6 (39.3, 65.0) | ||
| Jobs > 3 min in dictation length | 706 | 625 | 97.1 (90.1, 105.1) | 190 | 106 | 52.8 (41.7, 64.1) | 178 | 86 | 60.5 (46.6, 74.7) | ||
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CI, confidence interval; n1, number of dictated jobs using speech recognition; n2, number of dictated jobs using standard transcription; NA, not applicable.
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↵* Productivity for speech recognition as a percentage of productivity for standard transcription.
