Investigators looked at a random sample of 100 dictated notes and found 128 errors or 1.3 errors per note.
More than half of the errors were ascribed to speaker mispronunciation. Although when I use speech recognition software, it sometimes does not accurately discern what I am clearly saying.
Other errors involved deleted and added words, nonsense, and homonyms.
An example of a nonsense error was "patient up been admitted for stable gait."
Some of the critical errors (with possible interpretations) were as follows:
