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My company never audits my work in 5+ years - Unusual? (sm)

Posted: May 27, 2010

I have been at my company for over 5 years. I was released from QC within 1-2 days but I have never received any audits or even any emails regarding my work. I have 2 other friends at this company and they have never been audited either since being released from QC. One of them is prone to mistakes and was fired from another company because of quality but she continues to make errors at our current company. I have seen her errors because we can search archived reports. Isn't it unusual for a company to never do audits?

uhg.. I wish I worked there - the Q is audit CRAZY

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geez.

I second that!!! - sm

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You'd think with the constant flow of newbies hired at MQ, it would keep QA too busy for the monthly (or more frequent) audits. I think I've had 7 audits now in the last 2 months. Luckily I've passed them all, but it's ridiculous how audit happy they've become. I know a lot of folks who simply refuse to send anything to QA in fear of sparking an audit or being docked pay doing it.

For the millionth time... - anon

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QA does not do audits. MMEs do QA to fill in blanks or 100% QA on newbies. However, there are no scores on this, period. Each region has one QC person that does audits.

QA submission jobs and audit jobs are two totally separate things and NOT done by the same people.

Where I work never does either, though some accounts - sm -

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do have QA direct from the hospital though. Those MTs do get feedback but we have no one keeping score. Depends on the account you are on but most are direct submit with no QA. You are not allowed to send your work through though at first of course and are QA'd but once released (a matter of days if you are any good) that is it unless the client complains. I think we should be checked though as I see some really dumb mistakes go through sometimes when I need to refer to a previous report.

Never even heard of auditing transcription! - Transcribing for 15 years. (nm)

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This is the first time I have ever even heard of the practice.

That is very hard to believe. Most companies, - j

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unlike the ones above, do audit, you just may never hear back if there are no problems. Both places I work audit, in fact everywhere I have worked (30+ years) have had audits.

Same here, whether MTSO or in-house - SM

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I have noticed that many places do not bother to even go over your audits with you if you did fine. Conversely, I have worked at a couple of hospitals where even if you had a 100%, they would still sit down with you just to take the opportunity to "touch bases" and just have a general little 1:1 time.

I figure if there's a problem with my audits, I'll soon hear about it. Otherwise, I figure silence is golden :-)

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