What does [not stated] mean in my note?

[not stated] means the transcript didn’t contain it. Anything absent from the transcript is marked explicitly rather than padded with plausible filler — so an Examination heading with nothing said under it reads [not stated], not a tidy normal-findings paragraph.

Why it isn’t filled in for you

Akoua drafts from only what was spoken. It does not invent, infer, or suggest clinical content — diagnoses, doses, management — that wasn’t explicitly said. A fluent guess in an empty section is exactly the kind of error that survives review, because it reads like something you wrote.

So the token is doing two jobs at once: it tells you the section is genuinely empty, and it makes the emptiness visible in a note you’re about to sign.

It means unsaid, not undone

[not stated] is a statement about the recording, not about your consultation. If you examined the knee but didn’t say so aloud, the section will read [not stated] until you write it in. Filling those sections is part of review, like any other correction.

Safety-critical gaps

Structured templates carry must-document safety nets. Where one of those is missing, the gap becomes a visible [not stated] plus a flag — surfaced for your eye, never a silent drop. As with the two uncertainty flags, that flag is advisory: it marks an absence in the transcript and makes no clinical judgement about whether the absence matters.

Nothing is finalised or exported until you confirm, so a [not stated] you meant to fill in is still yours to fill in.

More on what Akoua will and won’t put in a note is in the responsible-use statement.