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Who is responsible for adding the templates? - anon

Posted: Sep 13, 2013

Who is responsible for adding the templates? I am finding a lot of errors lately in these when I pull them in. For instance, spacing. Several, if not many, are only single spaced between the end of a sentence and the next and only 1 space after a colon. Yet another thing to slow us down. Got "dinged" for pulling one in and not changing. I assumed (yes we all know what happens when you assume). That will never happen again if I can help it. Also noticing 1 space between state and zip code.

you should report those to your QC - and cc your TSM nm

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I believe it is the doctors or their lackeys - sm

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I had a dictator once say that he was going to fax us his template "tomorrow" and then stated to use it with the report he is dictating (whatever you say doc), so I'm guessing that they are retyped or entered in the system some other way by MModal once they receive them from the client.

Standards - TiggerQA

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I'm a QC, and that's part of my job. If a facility submits a standard, we have to review it for mistakes before opening a ticket to get it added to the database. When you see standards with mistakes, let your QC know so he/she can get it corrected. If you were evern in performance management for mistakes in template, be sure to bring that up. You shouldn't be penalized by mistakes in templates.

Not to mention the spelling mistakes in them - crazy

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Isn't that so irritating? - Hard to restrain myself...

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from making the corrections. The inconsistencies in headings and punctuation, the bad spelling are an affront to my OCD. I just have to say "serenity now!" to myself a few times and let the bad formatting go, and try to be grateful for the momentary bump in line count. Also one of my doctors is listed with a specialty of "RHUEMATOLOGY" in the ADT. Just gotta shake my head, and again, let it go...

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