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Hyphen - moderate-to-severe trabeculation - Dinged
Posted: Oct 27, 2011
Which way should moderate to severe by typed in this context? 1. moderate to severe trabeculation 2. moderate-to-severe trabeculation I was just dinged by QA (would prefer not to say which one yet), and really need to know. Also, I was always advised when typing a CBC, either all items should be expanded to thousands or none. It must be consistent. Is this also true? Thanks for the consult!
hyphen - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I would not put hyphens.
Agreed. No hyphens. Why would there be? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Nothing to modify.
because moderate-to-severe behaves as one adjective - english 101
[ In Reply To ..]
I would use the hypens and always do for something like that and - justme
[ In Reply To ..]never been marked as an error.
Compound adjectives... - English major
[ In Reply To ..]Actually, you would use hyphens in this case: "moderate-to-severe trabeculation" because "moderate-to-severe" is a compound adjective modifying the word "trabeculation." If it were worded differently, i.e., "The trabeculation was moderate to severe," then you would omit the hyphens. Google compound adjectives for more info. Hope this helps!
Both ways - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I never put hyphens in before (and worked in cardiology for 20 years), but noticed on my new VR cardiology account that the VR puts them in. So what I do: If the VR system puts the hyphens in there, I leave it; if not, I don't add them. There is one QA who has corrected me (with the hyphens), but it was just that one QA out of several, so I still do it both ways. I've never heard of the CBC expansion 'rule'. I've always transcribed as the physician dictates.
This is an example... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Of petty nit-picking by someone who should not be QA if she is wasting time (not to mention wasting her company's money, collecting an hourly wage) for ''dinging'' for trivialties that do not affect meaning or obscure clarity. While many (myself included) prefer hyphens for compound modifiers, either way is acceptable and would not obscure meaning in any way. The QA should be reported, and if she continues with such petty nonsense, she should be fired.
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