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Medical Malpractice Trends: Errors in Automated Speech Recognition

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This study was funded by CRICO foundation.

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  1. Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Maxim Topaz

  2. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Maxim Topaz, Adam Schaffer, Zfania Tom Korach & Li Zhou

  3. Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Maxim Topaz

  4. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Adam Schaffer, Zfania Tom Korach & Li Zhou

  5. Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA, USA

    Kenneth H. Lai & Li Zhou

  6. Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

    Kenneth H. Lai

  7. Controlled Risk Insurance Company (CRICO), Boston, MA, USA

    Jonathan Einbinder

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This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of partners Healthcare, Boston, USA.

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Topaz, M., Schaffer, A., Lai, K.H. et al. Medical Malpractice Trends: Errors in Automated Speech Recognition. J Med Syst 42, 153 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-018-1011-9

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