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When dictator says "dash" do I type a dash? - sambo

Posted: Nov 28, 2010

If a dictator says "dash" do you put a dash? For example, Worsening cough—as per HPI. Is this the correct format or should I be replacing the dash with something else? Verbatim account. Thanks for your help.

Dash - cm

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I would say since it is a verbatim account to go ahead and type a dash when dictated if it makes sense. If it made no sense at all, like "worsening dash cough as per HPI", then I would probably take it out. All companies have different preferences, but the verbatim accounts I work on say to make changes only if completely necessary. In this case, I think the dash makes sense, so I would leave it.

Dashes - LK

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I have worked on almost exclusively verbatim accounts and have never let the dictators punctuate for me, as it's wrong 50% of the time. I have some doctors who will dictate 20 or more dashes in one report, which I don't transcribe. Instead, I put in whatever punctuation is correct. According to the BOS, dashes should be used rarely, if at all, in medical reports and can usually be replaced by a comma.

It's also going to depend on the dictator - Happy MT Robin

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Like the one poster said below I have several docs who dictate punctuation and it's invariably wrong. I have a couple, though, who dictate it and they are correct every single time and we are under strict instructions to never change their wording or their pucntuation. Ever.

In this case, the dash could be used appropriately.

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