Proper knowledge of English usage and grammar are essential to ensure error-free transcripts.

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Ensuring Error-Free Health
Care Documentation
Transcribing medical notes and reports can be a real
challenge. In addition to knowledge about medical
terminology, it is important that the transcriptionist
is well-versed in the English
language including grammar,
punctuation and even medical
slang. Incorrect transcripts
pose a potential threat to
patients as they can lead to
wrong conclusions and affect
treatment.
Think
of
how
dangerous it could be if the
dosage of a drug in mg
(milligram) is transcribed as mcg (microgram). To
ensure error-free medical documents, medical
transcriptionists need to have some special abilities.
Ability
to
Dictation
Comprehend
Mistakes
in
Physicians often make spelling mistakes. A good
transcriptionist would look up doubtful terms or flag
them. For instance, in a dictated report, if a
physician says ‘neuroforamina’ and spells it so, the
transcriptionist should know that this is a non-word
and the correct term is actually ‘neural foramina’.

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Knowledge of
Punctuation
English
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Language
and
The medical transcriptionists should have in-depth
knowledge about the English language, usages and
punctuation. You can see many MTs transcribe the
word “followup” incorrectly. If this word is used as
verb, it should be written as “follow up”. In all other
instances, it should be written as “followup”.
Even punctuation may be dictated wrongly. They
may dictate ‘comma’ after every third word even
when it is not necessary. To reduce unnecessary
punctuations, transcriptionists should disregard all
the punctuation in the dictation and go by their own
expertise to use commas and full points correctly.
For instance, physicians tend to dictate specific
gravity in urinalysis as “10-10” or “10-12”, without
mention of the decimal point or period. Experienced
medical transcription service providers would know
that “10-10” and “10-12” should be transcribed as
1.010 and 1.012. It’s therefore important that the
transcriptionist learns correct punctuation for
medical transcription and has the ability to correct
punctuation errors and mistakes that physicians may
inadvertently make in their dictation.
Excellent Proofreading Skills
Proofreading or reading the transcribed
documents is crucial to improve the accuracy

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of medial documentation. Most of the errors
that went unnoticed at the time of the
transcription process such as omitted dictated
words,
misinterpretation
of
medical
abbreviations
or
acronyms,
grammatical
mistakes, punctuation errors and more can
detected during proofreading. Proofreaders will
actually check for the accuracy of information
in transcribed medical documents, repair the
transcripts,
format
the
transcripts
(for
instance, convert the transcribed documents
into patient charts and discharge summaries)
based on the requirements of their clients to
ensure the high quality medical documents.
Physician practices are faced with a deluge of
dictation to transcribe and the chances of
errors would be high unless the task is handled
by experts. Having an in-house team on the
task can prove expensive and resource
consuming and that’s why most physicians rely
on medical transcription outsourcing. With a
team
of
trained
and
experienced
transcriptionists that can handle transcription
for all medical specialties as well as quality
assurance specialists, a professional medical
transcription company can provide quality,
error-free transcripts in quick turnaround time.

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About the Author
MTS Transcription Services is an Oklahoma based
secure medical transcription company, providing
reliable and affordable solutions to clients across the
country. It delivers quality and timely medical
transcription outsourcing services within quick
turnaround time.
Contact Us:
Headquarters:
8596E.101stStreet,SuiteH
Tulsa, OK 74133
Main:(800)6702809
Fax(877)835-5442
E-mail: info@managedoutsource.com