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Two complaints here, on QA/QASAR - veryoldptimer

Posted: Jan 22, 2010

Enlighten this old gal. Weren't we told to change q.h.s. to at bedtime some time ago (AHDI rules)? and also were we not supposed to be ignoring commas versus semicolons. I majored in English in college. I am an old-school grammar girl, and a former editor of a publishing company. I do know my grammar and punctuation; but really it is not that crucial to the report. Only when you leave out periods...

Now, the qhs situation. Please someone tell me what the right thing is....

Also, Lotus Notes where do I get that? I have a new computer from MQ and I don't see that anywhere on my board?

Where did the playback go on QASAR so I can listen...??

Frustration, frustration....

Ha Ha, the jokes's on us - Another English Major

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The rule of thumb is that whatever we were taught in English doesn't apply. AHDI (Bos2) sets the rules now, whether appropriate or not...and even then depending upon QAC's interpretation of said rules (they vary according to different QAC whims). No matter MQ's plans to get everyone on the same page...that hasn't happened yet...and we are left to flouder amongst different interpretations. As far as the q.h.s. (You must follow first the Client Profile. If it isn't specified, then follow DQS guidelines (which follow BOS2 rules), which states q.h.s. is an abbreviation that is up for question and may be changed at a later time..but currently is to be used... if dictated. Clear as mud? Yeah..me too. And I have no doubt that clients are just as confused...with all the different interpretations of what's right and what's wrong. As if any of this pertains to affecting patient care...or just merely a way of grading U.S. transcriptionist as opposed to grading the ILPs (who are not subject to any of these rules.)

Lotus Notes? Isn't that something only the managers are privy to? Again, I may be totally in the dark here. Not everything applies to every division.

New MQ guidelines include short list of - Prohibited Abbreviations -

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and q.h.s is NOT on this short list of prohibited abbreviations and it is therefore to be used if dictated.
The MQ guidelines can be printed out from MQ Central -- sorry, but I can't tell you exactly where they are located. My QC sent them out to us as an email attachment, but said they could be found on MQ Central.

and on my 2-mo eval, I lost points for q.h.s. which was dictated - L&L

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and put in by ASR.

ASR also puts in q.6.h. instead of
q.6 h. and I also got knocked off for that.

I asked her why ASR couldn't be fixed to follow the "rules." She said send the report #s. Right, then watch me go on full performance management or something for all the other stuff they decide to find wrong.

Don't get me started on protime and protime and Protime

and DON'T GET ME STARTED on the AHDI (aka the self-serving association of self aggrandized old biddies).

one question - sm

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Where do we find all this information so it can be at our fingertips? The book of style for example and the prohibited thingamabobbers.

Ask Support where to go to download the - searchable BOS2 and

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put it on your desktop, and the new MQ Guidelines. (Unless your QC can tell you. My 2nd QC (I'm on my 4th) got them to us somehow.) It's just crazy that we all do not have exactly the same information and the same guidelines.

Always been this way. - Darn if you do and darn if you do not.

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You do it one way, they tell you different and so on. Can never seem to please them.

qhs in BOS - Sunflower

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I have electronic BOS I downloaded from MQCentral that has dangerous abbreviations list and, according to that, qhs is to be changed to nightly.

I haven not had any negative feedback regarding that, but then again, feedback could be one thing one day and another the next day.

I was told my account doesn't follow BOS - So....

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We were told we have to use qhs and HCTZ, etc., if dictated. I guess it depends on the CP

BOS/BOS2 is a crock! - gonzo

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They have run out of things to put in their books, so they have to change old rules back and forth every year just so that we are required to buy a new book to stay up-to-date. I'm in the wrong profession. I should have become a slimy, sleazy businessman where money is priority.

I agree, the back-and-forth changes in the BOS' 2 and 3 are CROCK...nm - .

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nm

q.h.s. was changed to "q. at bedtime," since ...sm - .

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q.h.s. could also mean "half strength."

Many QAs do not know this.

check client profile - jaybee

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Per DQS guidlines, q.h.s. is not prohibited. Unless the client profile uses BOS dangerous abbreviations or includes that in their prohibited abbrevations, then it can be used. That is of this writing; it could be changed at any time.

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