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# Auto-fill from clinical templates
> When you open a SOAP or DAP note, scores and worksheet content from the session pre-fill the right sections. Deterministic, no AI.
The point of doing structured clinical templates in-session is that the
relevant content is already captured by the time you sit down to write
the note. Rivet uses that fact: when you open a SOAP or DAP note,
the right fields pull text from completed templates earlier in the same
session and drop it into your draft.
You can edit, append, or delete the auto-filled text — it's a starting
point, not a final answer. But the typing you don't have to do is
typing you don't have to do.
## What gets pulled where
### SOAP — Subjective section
Score summaries from any screening measure the client filled out earlier
in the session. The full list:
* **Depression**: PHQ-9, QIDS-SR-16, CES-D-R, EPDS, PHQ-A
* **Anxiety**: GAD-7, PSWQ, SPIN, OCI-R
* **Distress + trauma**: K10, DASS-21, PCL-5, ITQ, PSS-10, CPSS-5, ACE
* **Functioning**: WHO-5, WHODAS-12, WAI-SR
* **Eating**: SCOFF, EDE-Q
* **Substance**: AUDIT, AUDIT-C, DAST-10, CAGE-AID, CRAFFT
* **Attention + mood**: ASRS-v1.1, SNAP-IV, MDQ
* **Sleep**: ISI
* **Emotion regulation**: DERS-18, ERQ, AAQ-II, MAAS, CFQ-7, SCS-SF
* **Personality + risk**: BSL-23, MSI-BPD, ASQ, RFL-12
* **Support + youth**: MSPSS, SDQ-self, RCADS-parent
* **Sleep diary, mood diary**: narrative content
Each one renders as a one-line score summary with the severity band —
e.g. `PHQ-9 total: 14 (Moderate)` — and lands at the top of the Subjective
field. You then add the narrative around it.
### SOAP — Objective section
EMDR + behavioural worksheet content as narrative:
* **Target identification** (negative cognition, positive cognition,
VOC, SUDS baseline, body sensation)
* **SUDS check-in**
* **Thought record**
* **Behavioural activation log**
* **Exposure log**
These produce labelled-line blocks that read naturally inside a clinical
note — the kind of content a practitioner would otherwise hand-copy from
the worksheet into the note field.
### SOAP — Assessment section
Clinical-reasoning support:
* **Safety plan** (when the client filled the 6-step Stanley-Brown-style
template earlier in the session)
* **Cognitive distortions** (Distortion check with the practitioner-
selected pattern)
* **CPT stuck-point log** (for CPT-trained practitioners)
### DAP — Data section
DAP collapses Subjective + Objective, so the Data section receives the
combined pull — every screening score listed above **plus** every EMDR
* behavioural-worksheet narrative listed above. It's the single home
for everything-the-session-produced.
### DAP — Assessment section
Same as SOAP — safety plan, cognitive distortions, CPT stuck-point.
### Plan and treatment-plan sections
No auto-fill. The Plan section is yours to write — interventions for
next session, homework, referrals, follow-up. Same for every section of
the treatment-plan template (Presenting concern, Goals, Objectives,
Interventions, Measures, Review). These are formulation and decision-
making fields where pre-filling would be misleading.
## Deterministic, no AI, no inference
The auto-fill engine is a deterministic merge. When you open a SOAP
note:
1. When you open the note, Rivet checks each field to see which
session templates it should pull from.
2. For each field, it looks up the relevant completed template in
your session — checking completed, minimized, and active templates,
in that order.
3. If the source template has been answered, Rivet formats the content
for clinical reading (scores as one-line summaries, worksheets as
labelled narrative blocks) and inserts it into the note field before
the overlay opens.
4. An "auto-filled" badge appears beside the field so you can see which
sections were pre-populated.
There's no LLM, no semantic matching, no inference about what you
meant. The mapping from each clinical template to its destination field
is fixed. If PHQ-9 is in the session, the PHQ-9 score lands in
Subjective. If it isn't, the field is empty. That's it.
This is the design that replaces an AI-scribe pipeline. The structured
data was already captured — by the client, into the right
template — so the note doesn't need an LLM to extract it again. See
[Why no AI transcription](/documentation/why-no-ai-transcription).
## What auto-fill **doesn't** do
* It doesn't write your formulation. The Assessment section gets the
raw safety-plan content if there's a safety plan, but the clinical
interpretation is yours.
* It doesn't generate language. There's no paraphrasing, summarizing,
or rewording. The text that lands in your field is the same text the
template would produce on a clipboard copy.
* It doesn't overwrite your edits. Once you've typed in a field, the
auto-filled prefix is part of your draft — re-running the auto-fill
would not "refresh" your typing.
* It doesn't reach across sessions. Auto-fill pulls from templates
completed earlier in the **same** video call. Last week's PHQ-9
doesn't carry forward — see [Notes and your EHR](/documentation/notes-and-your-ehr)
for how that lives in your chart instead.
## A small example
You run a 50-minute follow-up. The client fills PHQ-9 in the first 5
minutes (score 14, moderate) and a thought record in the middle 20
minutes. You open a SOAP note in the last 10 minutes.
The Subjective field opens with:
```
PHQ-9: 14 (moderate)
```
The Objective field opens with the thought-record content rendered as
labelled lines:
```
Situation:
What was happening?: Got an email from my boss about Monday's meeting
Your thought and feeling:
What you felt: anxious
How strong was it?: 8
The thought that went through your mind: "I'm going to be fired"
…
```
You type the Subjective narrative around the score, add your Objective
observations above the thought-record block, write your Assessment and
Plan from scratch, and the note is ready to export. Five minutes of
typing instead of fifteen.
## Related articles
Picking the note format that fits your workflow.
Why deterministic auto-fill replaces an AI scribe.
Getting the finished note out of Rivet and into your EHR.