4 - Scribe Style Settings: Blueprint Precedence, Clinical Safety and Support Guidance
=> This article sets out the rules that keep style settings from affecting clinical accuracy, and the checks to run when a user reports unexpected results.
Style settings personalise how a document reads, but they always operate underneath two fixed rules: blueprint instructions take precedence, and clinical accuracy is never compromised. This article explains both rules and gives Support a checklist for investigating style-related reports.
Blueprint instructions always take precedence
Style settings do not override explicit blueprint requirements. For example, Brief cannot remove information that a blueprint placeholder explicitly requests, and Omit under Empty sections does not apply where the blueprint explicitly instructs Scribe to retain a section. Format or wording preferences may also be constrained by specific blueprint instructions. The purpose of the style profile is to personalise presentation within the requirements of the selected blueprint, not to change what that blueprint requires.
Clinical safety boundaries
Style settings may affect the level of detail, compression, structure, wording, abbreviation use, direct quotations, clinician reference, patient reference, and the handling of empty sections. They must never cause Scribe to invent clinical information, add unsupported diagnoses, strengthen clinical statements beyond the source information, infer clinical facts that were not captured, invent clinical reasoning, or change the clinical meaning of the source content. Clinical accuracy always takes precedence over style preference.
Troubleshooting checklist
If a user reports that a document does not match their expected style, check the following:
- What Default style settings are currently saved for that user?
- Is this a newly generated document, or an existing one?
- Has a document-level style configuration previously been applied to that document?
- Was the document regenerated after the setting was changed?
- Does the selected blueprint explicitly request content or formatting that takes precedence over the style setting in question?
- Is the user expecting a style setting to remove content that the blueprint explicitly requires?
A change to Default style settings does not automatically update documents that have already been generated; an existing document must be regenerated for the updated style to apply to it.
Related articles
- Scribe Style Settings: Overview
- Scribe Style Settings: The Default Style Options Explained
- Scribe Style Settings: Changing Settings for an Individual Document
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