Contribution of a speech recognition system to a computerized pneumonia guideline in the emergency department.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the effect of a radiology speech recognition system on a real-time computerized guideline in the emergency department. METHODS: We collected all chest x-ray reports (n = 727) generated for patients in the emergency department during a six-week period. We divided the concurrently generated reports into those generated with speech recognition and those generated by traditional dictation. We compared the two sets of reports for availability during the patient's emergency department encounter and for readability. RESULTS: Reports generated by speech recognition were available seven times more often during the patients' encounters than reports generated by traditional dictatio..