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I am being audited and since when do we not sm - mqmt

Posted: Jun 22, 2012

put a dash between 2 adjectives describing a noun such as African-American female and when did we start not putting a dash between 2 vowels such as intraabdominal and uteroovarian ligaments? I am being marked down for this sort of thing? I don't understand when did this start?

AHDI changed the African American rule. I've never put a dash - between intraabdominal or uteroovarian. NM

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I disagree but thanks! nm - mqmt

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you can disagree, but you are wrong - there is no hyphen

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Read BOS rules.

BOS is BS. Whether "African-American" has a - hyphen or not doesnt affect pt. care! nm

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Well I am being docked for things like that so nm - mqmt

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Agree - MT

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It's obvious that the majority of "rules" are to take paid keystrokes away, and the "updated editions" are to make money. All in the name of supposedly benefiting MTs. I worked for 20+ years at a major well-known acute care facility and guess what, neither the 700+ doctors nor my company cared about BOS. You typed what was dictated, and the priority was on a readable, cohesive medical document. Errors were real errors, not hyphens, semicolons, or anything else that does NOT change the meaning of the sentence.

Thank you for your support! nm - ,q,t

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ADHI changed the - kittykat

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I don't see how they can mark it other than a minor feedback. You cannot look up everything you type in the BOS book, it would you take you weeks to see if they changed it. Anyway, who do they think they are making rules for every stinking thing. I can see some like dangernous abbrev., but everything else is whatever you were taught if you had school or have been trained to do. I would definitely go over anyone's head if they marked it an error.

Hyphens - DiggerMT

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I've always been taught that it was acceptable to transcribe either intraabdominal or intra-abdominal, depending though on client preference. I was also taught not to hyphenate African American, Native American, etc.

AUDIT - Nature

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Both of the examples you gave are not correct. I even looked it up in my Steadman's Medical Speller. It shows intra-abdominal and utero-ovarian. I would call my CCM, and ask HER to look in her medical speller.

MModal uses BOS2, so therefore - you take out the hyphen

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Because that is the BOS2 rule.

The rules are being dumbed down - people do not like dashes anymore

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When I went to school 8 years ago and for the first 2 years of working, what you did was what I learned to do. However, over the years, the dash between African American was taken out, then the dash between double vowels, now recently they have taken out the dash next to cm (eg. 2-cm brain). The latter 2 really grate my nerves because they really make sense to be there. It also says not to use a dash when a dictator says something like "hypertension - uncontrolled," and to use a comma or period instead. I wouldn't be surprised if they got rid if the dash altogether. As an MME, its rare to see a dash used correctly anyway, I've seen the same MT/ME switch between proper use and improper use in a single report, like they know there should be one, but don't quite know when to use it.

I use dashes because with VBS, it gives me a - PAID keystroke, rather than unpaid. nm

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The VR I do now always - hyphenates

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African American as well as always does diabetes type II. When I see VR making such mistakes constantly, I don't bother to change them.

It depends on your account - My account takes out the hyphens

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There's no consistency in this company.

years ago - old school

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These changes have been around for a few years now. BOS3 still makes the rules a lot of services use. Love it or hate it, it helps to have it so you can keep those QA scores up (sarcasm off).

I think these things get changed every 5 years just so MTs are kept off guard! LOL!

If they don't change the rules - how would they sell new copies of the BOS?

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If you don't get them free anyways.

I've never paid a cent for BOS (nor owned one or - even borrowed it). And NEVER WILL.

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We MTs can't afford to be wasting our money on foolish, useless things, and BOS is certainly both of those things.

when we quit typing numbers and putting periods - between R.N. and M.D.

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any anything else they could NOT pay us for :)

Which is precisely why I refuse to bow down to - BOS, and I still put them in.

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S_ _ w those witches at AHDI, and the broom they rode in on.

Someone needs to melt them.

Amen - sister

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