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is q.h.s. expanded jeopardizing patient safety? - curious

Posted: Jun 14, 2012

I should have looked into this a litte further a few months ago but it made me fail an audit because I expanded it. I thought it was still a no,no to use it. My bad.

if your account is verbatime and does not follow Dangerous Abbreviations rule, - then you do not expand it. n/m

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I think it was not a verbatim account. Also, sm - curious

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was told it is now acceptable to use it. I think qhs is located somewhere in one of their transcription guides that it is acceptable.

only AHDI says it is unacceptable - so,

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If client profile follows AHDI, then you expand. If client profile follows JACHO, then you can use q.h.s.

MMOdal guidelines say you can use it.

MModal abbreviations - kcmt

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Does anyone else think MModal allows previously prohibited abbreviations and also wants us to do things like remove the hyphen in 5-cm, etc. just to get out of paying for those characters? I mean, they would have to pay us for every time we put the hyphen in 5-cm. They would have to pay for "at bedtime" instead of q.h.s.

I usually try not to jump on the conspiracy theory bandwagon, but it is curious why they go against so many things other companies do, as well as the BOS, etc.

I don't think it's that. - sm

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Mmodal charges the hospitals by the line/character, so if anyone would want things shortened, its the hospitals, as it doesn't make a difference to MModal cost-wise if its typed or not. As for the hyphen, it takes the place of a space and we do get paid for spaces, so that won't matter. I believe they took the hyphen out to dumb things down. As an MME, its rare to see hyphens used correctly anymore.

hyphen - mt

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I missed this change. Do you mean that if you were typing 5-cm incision you would not use the hyphen here?

found this rule in MM style guide - mt

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Thanks for mentioning this. Just found it in the style guide.

MModal abbreviations - Ellen

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I think it is because the clients do not necessarily want to pay for the extra characters. I don't like the policy though. In my opinion, a more formal style is better. Thankfully, the account on which I work has added many of the DocQScribe-accepted abbreviations to their Do Not Use list.

what if I just use qhs all the time..my head is going to explode! - curious

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I could have my computer screen covered with notes and not even see the screen anymore. I don't want to have to start putting sticky notes on my screen but I guess I may have to put a few. I do have some notes in front of me but after awhile I feel like I cannot think straight or even see straight for that matter.

It's not a dangerous abbreviation & it is okay to use. - Ridiculous to fail an audit over though. NM

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sorry..I was looking back and 1 point was taken off - curious

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I was thinking of another audit. The audit where 1 point was taken off I still got way over 98 but was told I should still strive! I guess only humans make mistakes and not machines like their glorified ASR. I'm so sick of it. If I am not jeopardizing any one's safety I wish they would leave me alone.

Amen. Where do they get these auditors... They go so overboard. - NM

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do you ever think because you pass a certain line count for any given day.. - curious

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that automatically the QA leaders are notified and they get on you just to slow you down?? Seriously, I have never been so paranoid in any job I have had than here. I feel they want to keep you at a certain pace but I just do not understand now why the push for the use of mentoring. The only think I can think of is the mentoring is for the ones who are just not up to a certain line count. I really do not think they are going to mentor everybody by the way my ccm talks.

You're not wrong - Siouxzq

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Apparently the Dangerous Abbreviations list has gone by the wayside. It was originally developed to deal with handwritten notes and orders. Now that we have EHRs and transcribed reports, the clarity issue no longer exists. I don't think you should have gotten dinged for that, however, because it was on the list originally, and I would protest it.

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