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anyone get 100% on an audit okay go ahead and brag - I need hope!

Posted: Oct 23, 2009

I just wanted to know if it was possible! I am nit picked to death by our whatchamacallit person who audits (I think they changed their title again?) For the past 2 audits I only came in at 97%. I think we are suppose to be at 98.9%, but they are all stupid things... like a hyphen or a comma. I forget sometimes that standard grammar may not apply to MT, but if it was stated in the AAMT BOS or client profile I tend to do it! All 3 of the reports pulled were ASR, go figure! I don't nearly spend enough time on those so I may let a comma slip here or there. I did that thing again where I added a "he or she" to the beginning of the word (He states instead of just States) so just like the dictators that I transcribe for I suppose we are NOT to use proper English!

punctuation - very seasoned

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There should not be any points taken for punctuation. On RARE occasions there might be a misplaced period because the MT did not understand where a sentence is supposed to end, and a new one begins. In such cases, the wayward punctation mark causes the content not to make any sense, so a fraction of a point might be deducted. Generally, though, punctuation "errors" should show no point deductions. If deductions were taken for punctuation no one would pass an audit.

Another ASR issue - Go Vikings!

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I brought up another ASR issue with my supe. Sometimes, the doctor is completely at fault for the mistake and we have to leave a QA marker and explanation, something like changing genders in the middle of the dictation, or dictataing throughout the entire dictation that it's the right side, only to say at the end that it's the left. I asked if we got penalized for stuff like this and she said we didn't. Phew. It's nice to see they're reasonable, at least the ones I deal with are.

I don't think anyone could get 100% consistently... - kiki

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But if so, kudos to you! There are too many variables, though, like preferences, that could technically make almost any report fall short of absolutely perfect, so 100% is probably a fluke. Nice goal though. :)

QA - Viking fan - Beat the Steelers!

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I do agree with that, but some make it darned close a lot of the time. I get my days, though, where I've had nothing but stuttering, mumbling, whispering, very little English speaking doctors with terrible grammer and I feel like typing exactly what they say, not caring if my QA goes down to 50%

Hyphenated to death at 100% QA - Viking fan

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I had mentioned in my above post that I was severely sick for almost 3 months, finally started feeling better, then broke my foot. My QA, which is uusally 100% went down to 97%, so I was on 100% QA for awhile. They hyphenated me to death. I marked down several things and reported them to my supe. I had one doc dictating her PE headings as "cards" and "pulm". I told my supe I'd rather be docked as a lower QA than type something like that. The QA person was hyphenating EVERYTHING! 20 years ago, when I first started, we hardly hyphenated anything. I pointed out about 20 different things that I was unsure about and she said I was right on every one, which surprised me. I truly wanted to know if I was in the wrong about some of these things. She said as far as hyphens, as long as it does not change the meaning of the sentence, don't worry about it. I was nitpicked to death and feared I was going to be fired. After about 6 weeks, I was back up to 100%. If you have any questions about all of your corrections, I'd seriously ask your supe (in a nice way) about them. Good luck!

Speaking of which, regarding headings... - Oldy but Moldy

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When I was a young MT with the Q (when the Earth was new and dinosaurs roamed), I was told we should NEVER, EVER abbreviate in a heading or subheading. In fact, I received a phone call from QA once telling me that. Now I get dinged for expanding FEN/GI, pulm, card, GI, GU in headings. Is this suddenly okay? Seems wrong to me! Lately, I've been typing everything as if they were all verbatim accounts, just to avoid the ding - it feels wrong. AND in my opinion, the BOS-2 is a crock! We should print it out and wipe our butts with it!

Expanding Headings - Oldie, Oldie

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Most Client Profiles are clear on when to expand abbreviations. I would follow that. The majority say to just expand in Impression, Assessment, Diagnoes type of headings. Everything else is as dictated. I'm not from the old school, but came in just as that was changing to "as dictated."

i have been walking on glass.... not eggshells - crispymt

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just to make sure I do what they tell me to! Lord knows I don't want them to put me on 100% QA so that I have a constant reminder every day that I did something wrong in a document, whether or not I really did! I have been typing most like they were verbatim because I am getting corrected like they were verbatim!

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