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ASR Chronic Errors List - MT

Posted: Sep 09, 2010

Here are some of my observances of chronic ASR errors, though sometimes it gets it right. Most are not a biggie, but one could get marked down on an audit.

1. BiPaP. Should be BiPAP.

2. Levothyroxine. ASR capitalizes the "L" for some reason. This med is a generic for the brand Levothyroid. Should be levothyroxine.

3. FIO2. Should be FiO2.

4. Hospice. In the English dictionary, this is simply hospice. If a specific organization name is mentioned with it, then one would capitalize the H.

5. BUN four (or whatever number). ASR doesn't seem to get that it needs a numeral like the other labs.

6. Coronary disease for coronary artery disease. For some reason, it likes to leave out the word artery. This is very easily missed when editing ASR.

That's all I can think of for now. Feel free to submit your own so we can all try to catch these errors and keep the quality we're expected to.

S1-S2 - Tink

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It always puts S1-S2 for heart sounds, when that deals with the sacral area of the spine instead. Heart sounds should have commas instead (S1, S2). Our QATL had to send out an e-mail about that.

ASR - speech wrecker

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Cabbage for CABG.

Still puts in & sign and q.day - NJA Queen

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It drives me crazy that they send out these lists of JCAHO abbreviations and symbols that are not supposed to be used and ASR inserts them anyway.

Don't work for MQ but I notice AST will - put SM

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dictated: Hernia repair done in 2002. VR will put. Hernia repair done in 2000. Two (another sentence).

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