misdocument

present singular third person misdocuments · participle present misdocumenting · participle past misdocumented · past misdocumented

1. To document incorrectly; to falsify or make an error in documentation.

   If you miss a line or misdocument a detail, this is a breach-of-contract responsibility.

   2002, Mary V. Knackstedt, The Interior Design Business Handbook, page 268

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   Where Baraka and Braxton do appear to be in near-total accord is in their belief in black music's potential for effecting both social and spiritual change and the consequent inevitability of attempts to suppress it and/or misdocument it by the white cultural establishment.

   1999, Graham Lock, Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton, page 161

   What would it cost you and the patient if you were to misdiagnose or miss something as a result of not giving the documentation process the attention it requires? What could happen if you misdocument a patient chart?

   2010, Keith Rosen, Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions