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Can anyone tell me any of the new changes in the AHDI book of style. ?
Stupid Question – how does AHDI let you know what changes they make to new Editions of the Book of Style?
I never had to use the BOS before because my company did not adhere strictly to it, so I never bothered to buy BOS 1 or BOS 2 even though I have been a Medical Transcriptionist for over 20 years.
But, when I got free access to the online version of BOS 3 by virtue of the settlement with MedQuist, I started reading over it since it appears that many of the tests on MTTEST seem to follow it and I wanted to become familiar with things that I do differently than what the BOS recommends.
After reading through the entire 28 chapters (564 subsections) I could only find 2 instances where they stated: "Note: This represents a change in recommendation from that outlined in the 2nd edition of this text."
So, back to my stupid question. If they come up with a BOS 4 before I retire, how will they let people who have been following the BOS 3 know about the changes/updates (or did they actually only change 2 things between BOS 2 and BOS 3, and make everyone buy a new copy)?
Does anyone know the actual number of changes from BOS 2 and BOS 3 (I may have to re-read it to see if I can find all of them and see what words they use to indicate a change).
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THANK YOU All.