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Did they change the rule about not starting a sentence with a number? - MME

Posted: Jul 15, 2011

I'm just curious as I'm seeing it constantly now. For decades, I have always been trained and told never to start a sentence with a number and to spell it out or add something like the work A or The like: The 20-year-old patient... instead of: 20-year-old patient...

I've been correcting it, but since I'm seeing it all the time, I'm wondering if this rule isn't followed anymore and, if this rule is still in place, they need to start training these MTs better.

Only on verbatim reports - x

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Even on verbatim, I was told to just spell the number out (if not a decimal). - It still would be verbatim. NM

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Unless it's a unit of measure - x

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In any case, these mistakes are not units of measure - and this account is not verbatim. NM

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Read BOS section on verbatim - sm

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No, you're right, with the exception noted by other posters. - sm

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I've noticed an increase in errors in the past couple of weeks also. A lot of missing words, whole sentences paraphrased when it really wasn't necessary, CPs/BOS2 not followed at all. It's weird as it didn't used to be like this. It makes me doubt myself also, thinking I have been doing it wrong, forcing me to re-look everything up in current rulesets. I'm now trying to copy/paste the rules into the feedback and citing where I got it.

This is paranoid, but it also makes me wonder if MQ may be auto-tweaking these reports even before QA gets them just to make US MTs look bad to the hospitals.

There's one doctor in one of my - CA-MT

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client profiles that is verbatim/verbatim. It was never put in the client profile, but when I first learned it, we were specifically told to be VERY careful to type ONLY as she dictates, whether it is correct or not. Sometimes she'd put in a comma where one shouldn't be, but we'd have to put one if she said to. It's an account I've been working on for years but haven't gotten any dictations from her for months. The other day I got one of her documents. I felt so sorry for her. The poor woman had to spell out every - single - oncologic - word as if she was talking to a first-grader. Just who has been doing her dictation anyway? She actually enunciates and is very easy to understand, but it sounded like someone (ILPs maybe??) was messing with her dictation. She also specifies to start off a sentence with the actual number, not spelled out, like "6 mV photons. . ." I've never felt comfortable doing that but it's what she requested Years ago. I'm sure she's not happy with the documents returning to her, obviously done by someone either assigned her work as a secondary account, or an ILP.

I'm not surprised - x

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It seems every time MQ makes a change and upsets the MTs the quality of the work takes a nosedive. Unfortunately, I don't think the MTs understand they're shooting themselves in the foot by submitting shoddy work. The pay goes down, they think they're getting back at MQ by not doing their best, then QA finds a critical error, then QA has to proof the whole error, the MT falls below 99% and gets put on 100% QA, which makes their pay go waaaaay down, and they complain because they can't get off 100% QA because they're too depressed now to concentrate on anything but how "unfairly" they're being treated.

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