diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index 51b1abe96..a96c24502 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -968,7 +968,10 @@ class DocumentViewSet(
                     ),
                 ),
                 "tags",
-                "custom_fields",
+                Prefetch(
+                    "custom_fields",
+                    queryset=CustomFieldInstance.objects.select_related("field"),
+                ),
                 "notes",
             )
         )