chart lore
Chart lore is the phenomenon in which unverified information in a medical record comes to be treated as fact through repetition.
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Last mentioned Chart lore occurs when an unverified assertion in a patient's medical record is copied or repeated until it is treated as an established fact. Here, “chart” means the medical record, not a graph.
An AI system summarizing records or extracting diagnostic evidence may carry forward an unverified assertion already in the record. Unlike a hallucination that introduces a claim absent from the source, chart lore concerns the reliability of information present in the source.
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