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. 2017 Jul 5;17(Suppl 2):68. doi: 10.1186/s12911-017-0464-y

Table 2.

Redundancy percentages in clinical notes by various SMD groupings

SMD Group Overall Redundancy
% (Standard Deviation)
Inpatient Note Redundancy
% (Standard Deviation)
Outpatient Note Redundancy
% (Standard Deviation)
Overall 64.31% (36.49%) 68.30% (33.80%) 60.68% (38.42%)
Emergency Medicine 47.26% (40.85%) 41.83% (42.80%) 54.06% (37.18%)
Critical Care Medicine 67.82% (34.04%) 67.82% (34.04%) --
Internal Medicine Overall 65.63% (35.64%) 70.11% (32.30%) 62.50% (37.50%)
Specialty Internal Medicine 67.51% (35.10%) 72.05% (31.23%) 65.00% (36.83%)
Surgery 55.05% (39.87%) 55.04% (39.73%) 55.06% (39.73%)
Pediatrics 74.88% (30.47%) 67.00% (37.11%) 76.29% (28.90%)
Psychiatry 57.12% (39.86%) 56.80% (40.30%) 61.46% (33.50%)
Radiology 45.86% (40.76%) 25.50% (35.62%) 64.86% (35.78%)