PURPOSE Few data describe how often residents defer indirect patient care tasks to after hours or show whether residents report this time in duty hours logs. Thus, the authors examined how often residents perform one such task, discharge dictation, outside scheduled hours. METHOD The authors tracked all discharge summaries dictated by internal medicine residents at a single teaching hospital ...

Groups are used widely in the language classroom and, particularly in classes where there is a wide range of English proficiency among students, teachers may want to construct balanced groups based on the language proficiency of individual students. In order to construct such groups, teachers need a reliable measure that effectively differentiates between different levels of proficiency, and ye...

OBJECTIVE Speech recognition promises to reduce information entry costs for clinical information systems. It is most likely to be accepted across an organization if physicians can dictate without concerning themselves with real-time recognition and editing; assistants can then edit and process the computer-generated document. Our objective was to evaluate the use of speech-recognition technolog...

BACKGROUND Digital voice transcription has been introduced widely in the National Health Service (NHS), though primarily in radiology departments. There has been a long-standing problem with recruitment of medical secretaries within the NHS, leading to long delays in the production of correspondence from outpatient clinics. OBJECTIVE To determine whether use of widely available digital transc...

The recall of hierarchically organized tonal sequences was investigated in two experiments. An adaptation of the technique of melodic dictation was employed, in which musically trained listeners notated each sequence after it was presented. Strong effects of sequence structure were obtained. Sequences whose tonal structure could be parsimoniously encoded in hierarchical fashion were recalled wi...

Speech recognition transcripts are being used in various fields of research and practical applications, putting various demands on their accuracy. Traditionally ASR research has used intrinsic evaluation measures such as word error rate to determine transcript quality. In non-dictation-type applications such as speech retrieval, it is better to use extrinsic (or task specific) measures. Indexat...

We sought to identify, the impact of handwriting skills on the efficiency and temporal course of word spelling across Grades 2-9. Eighty-four students, drawn from primary and lower secondary schools, were asked to perform a dictation task to assess their word spelling. They also had to write out the letters of the alphabet, as well as their firstnames and surnames, from memory to assess their h...

TEFL teachers and scholars acknowledge the unique characteristics of listening skills vital role it plays in language learning communication. The present study seeks to empirically investigate if partial dictation versus dictogloss has any significant effect on comprehension Iranian EFL learners. Participants include 60 male learners who were selected via double sampling after taking pre-test r...