Quantifying clinical narrative redundancy in an electronic health record

Table 1

Percentage of information in notes (columns) found to be duplicated from previous notes (rows)

	Signout note	Progress note	Discharge summary
Admission note	30.3%^*	29.7%^*	30.7%
Signout note	78%^‡	^§	8.7%^†
Progress note	^§	54%^‡	7.4%^†

↵* First signout note and first progress note.
↵† Last signout note and last progress note.
↵‡ Compared to all previous notes.
↵§ Information duplication between signout and progress notes was not calculated.

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