Modest burnout reduction (RCT)
Because of AI, physicians using ambient scribes reported modestly less burnout, exhaustion, and task load in a 238-physician randomized trial.
NEJM AI (Dec 2025) randomized 238 outpatient physicians across 14 specialties to Microsoft DAX, Nabla, or usual care for two months; either scribe improved burnout, exhaustion, and task load, and Nabla reduced time-in-note.
Sources
- primaryNEJM AI: Ambient AI Scribes in Clinical Practice — A Randomized Trial (PMC)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- primaryJAMIA (May 2026): randomized crossover of two ambient scribes, 160 clinicians (Duke)scholars.duke.edu
Editor's notes
Window is pre for the NEJM AI trial; verify dates of the Duke crossover trial — it may be in-window.
Related
History
- Added.
Cite this entry
Permalink https://becauseofai.org/entry/ambient-scribes-nejm-ai
“Because of AI, physicians using ambient scribes reported modestly less burnout, exhaustion, and task load in a 238-physician randomized trial.” Because of AI, updated Oct 22, 2026. https://becauseofai.org/entry/ambient-scribes-nejm-ai@misc{becauseofai_ambient_scribes_nejm_ai,
title = {Because of AI, physicians using ambient scribes reported modestly less burnout, exhaustion, and task load in a 238-physician randomized trial.},
howpublished = {\url{https://becauseofai.org/entry/ambient-scribes-nejm-ai}},
note = {Because of AI registry, updated Oct 22, 2026},
year = {2026}
}