She will follow up with me(v)/will be seen in followup(n); will have a follow-up visit (adj)

• followup or - anon
  • She will follow up with me(v)/will be seen in followup(n); will have a follow-up visit (adj) - nm
    • Per BOS - no hypen, but my client wants - see message
    • they hyphen is not incorrect but.. - cj
  • verb/noun - sweets
  • This helped me a lot - followup rule
    • thanks! - anon

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I have a follow-up appointment tomorrow.

I need to follow up with my doctor.

I am scheduled for followup later this month.

A doctor can follow up with a patient during a follow-up visit (note that the adjectival form requires a hyphen). Neither phrase should be turned into a single hyphenless word.

Ok,, been at this for years,, I think i have it finally and then a QA will correct followup, follow up, or follow-up.  I have read and reread the explanation in all the books.. I am looking for someone to "splain to me in english Lucy".  I know will follow up is correct,, he has a follow-up appointment, but I seem to get messed up with followup versus follow up. I know the verb and none definition but it does not soak in... HELP

Found this on another MT board and thought it was EXTREMELY helpful as even as QA I still get confused!

I know "follow up" is a verb and "followup" is a noun/adjective but am still having some trouble.  A suggestion is to place a different noun or verb in its place. For example, use eat. He will followup/follow up next week. If you place "eat" in the sentence, "He will eat next week." you know it is a verb because the sentence still makes sense.

Do I have this right?

This is a pleasant 71-year-old male in followup (noun) of his small cell CA.
...................................................in followup (adjective) mode of his small cell CA
...................................................in for follow up (verb) of his small cell CA.
Thanks!

Is there a "rule" about when it is appropriate to use "follow up" versus "followup"? 

Thanks!! 

A good rule of thumb I was taught in training for followup/follow up is if you can put "a" or "the" in front of followup, it is the noun form; otherwise it is the verb form.  Ex.

...a/the followup appointment. 

...a/the followup x-ray. 

 ...will follow up.  (You can't put "a" or "the" in front of follow up, it won't work.) 

Anyway, just thought I would share something that has helped me tremendously as a newbie. 

I prefer to hyphen follow-up when used as a noun or adjective.

example: She will return in 3 weeks for follow-up (or followup). She will return in 3 weeks for a follow-up visit (used as adjective here).

She will follow up in 3 months (used as verb)

For Example:

The patient will follow up in my office.

The patient will be seen for follow-up in my office.

My understanding has always been that follow-up and followup were the same.  It was more of a personal preference whether you used the hyphen or used one word; however follow up is always used when used as a verb.

In the context you are quoting (noun), I would use follow-up.  If you are using the words as a verb (e.g. ...he will follow up in 6 weeks...), then separate the words with a space.  Hope that helps.

Thank you....although I guess some people still use a hyphen sometimes?  Well, I'll leave it out.

Cindi

She is dictating a list of medication allergies and says Q-Tech.  Nothing else.  Not much help! 

He keeps dictating "follow dash up"

I thought it was followup or follow up.  Not follow-up. 

I don't know what to do

This is how I use it. 

follow up - verb  The patient will follow up with so and so.

follow-up - adjective  follow-up appointment

followup - noun  The patient will return for a followup.

Of course, people have different opinions.  I think the accepted latest BOS is that followup is used for noun and adjective now and follow up is used for verb.