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18percent of reviewed notes with an accidental omission
In the UC Davis pilot, accidental omissions were the most frequent error, in 18 percent of the 356 reviewed notes, ahead of hallucinations at 11.5 percent and accidental inclusions at 9.3 percent.
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
- Physicians rated each reviewed note with a survey instrument that asked about four error types. Bias was rare, in 1.1 percent of notes.
- What it does not show
- The counts are physician reports on a survey, not a line-by-line audit against the recording. Only 356 of 7,545 notes were reviewed.
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