Posted By: moon1010 on 2008-10-09
In Reply to: QA - Wrong

The two docs I edit for want those apostrophes there and you can find just as many reference materials that DO include them as don't. I agree this is nothing that is going to affect patient care, but bottom line - you have to give the client what they want.

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