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ArticleBMJ digital health & AI2026

Does ambient voice technology in healthcare really save time? The need for rigorous evaluation to test the promise.

Niels Peek, Matthew Woodward, Lukasz Zielinski, Ross Goldstone, Mary Dixon-Woods

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Article in BMJ digital health & AI, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Niels PeekTHIS Institute, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6393-9969
Matthew WoodwardTHIS Institute, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Lukasz ZielinskiThe Health Foundation, London, UK.
Ross GoldstoneThe Health Foundation, London, UK.
Mary Dixon-WoodsTHIS Institute, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Artificial intelligenceDocumentationOutcome and Process Assessment, Health Care

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PMID42712340
PMCPMC13492540

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