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9.3percent of reviewed notes with an accidental inclusion
In the UC Davis pilot, accidental inclusions, meaning content from the visit that does not belong in the note, appeared in 9.3 percent of the 356 reviewed notes.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“accidental omissions were the most frequent error (n=64, 18%), followed by hallucinations (n=41, 11.5%), and accidental inclusions (n=33, 9.3%)”
Quality of Clinical Notes Created by Ambient Listening Generative AI: Pragmatic Prospective Pilot Study, Taylor SL et al., JMIR Medical Informatics, 2026, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.2196/86474)- What it measures
- The study's own four-part error taxonomy, from the physician survey of 356 notes. Bias was rare, in 1.1 percent of notes.
- What it does not show
- Physician reports on a survey, not a line-by-line audit against the recording. The count is of notes, from 356 reviewed.