Mistakes found in other people's work

I work on a platform where we can pull up previously-transcribed reports for samples.  I have worked for this company for about 7 months now and have never had a QA done on my work.  I like to know if I am doing something wrong or if there is a better/easier way of doing things.  While going through some reports to get samples I have noticed things that are not that big a deal, but more along the line of somebody padding their lines, i.e., in the laboratory section writing out the number seventeen, in extremity examination writing out plus-two pedal pulses, cranial nerves two through twelve, things like this.  Also, things like sclerae IS instead of are.  Our accounts are not verbatim.

I guess my question is what would most of you do, leave it alone or say something about it?  I have left it alone for this long, but it just doesn't sit well with me.  I'm sure I do things that are wrong too and that is why I wouldn't mind getting reviewed every now and then to ensure consistency and quality.  Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. 

• Mistakes found in other people's work - anon
  • Working on escription? - me
  • Honestly, it will backfire on you if you try to - QA
  • quality - Rebecca
    • who cares about pats on the back, - flibbertigibbit
  • Mind your own business. - btdt
  • mistakes - pollyanna
  • It COULD be a lot worse. And clients and QA are much more likely - Misha
  • We may care what our work looks like & how correct it is, but many clients don't. They want words - on paper. nm Gotta live with it
  • see inside - mt1313
  • One time when copying and pasting - wimt
    • To You're Right But Most Won't Care - anon
  • I'd leave it alone... - QAer2
  • I notice that too. QA will eventually catch up to them. - NM
  • I agree, not your beeswax BUT - as a QAer
  • maybe you should pick up an extra account so you have something to do with all that free time OR - nm
  • if you are not QA - mt
    • mistakes in other's work - me2QA
      • We are told to look at other reports...sm - PammyB
      • Well that's not true! Plenty of reasons - Misha
        • "reasons" does not make it correct - me2QA
          • You're right, but most won't care. Also, MT says - QA
            • A big ABSOLUTELY to YOU!! - flibbertigibbit
            • thanks! - me2qa

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If your job is not QA, you have no reason to be looking at someone else's work. Someone should be supplying you w/ the appropriate, properly de-identified samples.Viewing a report typed by another person is a potential HIPAA violation.  Don't mean to preach, but that's the way it is....

I probably QA where you work..hmmmmm

I used to be a supervisor and was trying to find a way to monitor productivity on Meditech and found that line counts fluctuated greatly!  I did all kinds of comparisons - typed reports in word and counted the lines in word with MP Count and then compared it with Meditech and there was sometimes near a 200 line discrepancy at the end of the day.  Then we found that running a line count twice in Meditech on the same MT and same reports would get us two different numbers with about 20 lines difference.

Meditech is just not MT friendly, but unfortunately MTs are at the bottom of the list of considerations when choosing an EMR system.  I gave up and started keeping track of minutes of dictation.

Have this as one of my bookmarks - found this handy whilst handling rehab work. Hope this helps!

http://medicaltranscriptionwordhelp.googlepages.com/rehabmedicineterminology

What program is good to use for line counting?

I was thinking 13/cents a line?  Is that undercharging?  I have to remember that I have to pay my overhead so even though 13 sounds high, I have to pay equipment,  equipment, equipment.

help

I have been transcribing for about 20 years, but took a break from it for about 1-1/2 years.  Now I am working for a service.  Here is my first question to you guys:

1.  How long has it been slow like this?  There does not seem to be that many jobs, and the response is slow when applying.  I use to get calls almost the same day with just posting a resume (a few years ago.)

2.  Also, this economy is so horrible.  I was thinking, people are losing their jobs - losing their health insurance.  Do you think that is really cutting into our industry, because people just cannot afford to go the doctor unless it is an emergency? 

for you, although we have a motorhome so our camping isn't really roughing it.  

We did not take an extendend train trip, but did take an 20+ hour trip on a train.   We did not have a sleeper car as it was just as cheap to fly as it was for the sleeper car and we were trying to save $$.  Anyway the train had mice and a sewage problem and every time the train hit a rough spot that made it jerk the sewage smell would go through the whole train and gag you.   There were people in sleeper compartments that their bathrooms didn't work.   Our train originated in NY and was going to FL and we got on midway and all the better seats were taken.   The train also seemed to stop at every crossroads for someone to get on/off so sleeping was not easy.  

make a horrible pest of yourself? Honestly? My riding instructor, who is one of the dearest friends I've ever had, gets into these schemes. His latest was Tahitian Noni juice.

He had some remarkable results with it on a horse that was just a juvenile delinquent - she reared in crossties, acted up at shows when she wasn't in the arena, she was just a PMSing witch.

So I was impressed. I went to a meeting with him. Come to find out, they don't actually want you to buy the Noni juice - they want you to recruit other people to recruit other people. Biggest mess of flim-flam I've ever seen.

"Yes, I work at home but I never go home from work." They usually stop and think and realize that there's nothing lucky about that!