Time format rules in BOS 3rd edition?

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Okay, I am an old gal working mostly ias in-hospital MT (VA, Teaching hospital), but I did also work off and on for MTSOs at home.   Now going back a long time, I was always taught that in formatting Problem Lists or Hospital Course by problem list you transcribe it this way.   Problem #1 - HYPERTENSION.  The patient is taking lisinopril currently.....  or if the doc did not say PROBLEM #1, then you transcribed it 1.  HYPERTENSION.  Blah, blah, blah.   When did this change and become wrong?  Most of the docs I am now transcribing for one of the major MTSOs now (left the hospital), actually ask that we capitalize the major problem.  Is this in the so-called AHDI BOS2? 

IMHO, using the capitalization on the problem is much easier to read, than this...

1.  Hypertension.  The blah, blah, blah..

2.  Diabetes mellitus type 2.  Uncontrolled.  Not compliant.

Any QAers out there can answer this one for this old school nitpicker?

BOS says if you can put "and" between the adjectives then use a comma, which in this case you really can't until btwn telangiectatic and vascular.  Just always second guessing myself. 

Thank you!!!!

the correct way would be to write it out in full (Escherichia coli) whether or not it was dictated in full.  Then, if the dictator says E. coli after that, then it is correct to transcribe it that way.  If the dictator says it in full the next time, then transcribe it in full.  Check your account's guidelines for their preference. 

First of all, both got and gotten are correct forms of the verb get.  However, got is a past tense or past participle depending on whether or not the word "has" or "have" is used in front of it.  Gotten, however, is past participle and should be used with the word "has" or "have" in front of it.

It has gotten increasingly larger - okay.  It gotten increasingly larger - not okay.  It got increasingly larger - okay.  It has got increasingly larger - okay.

So if your doc says it anyway but "It gotten increasingly larger", he is correct.  It's simply a matter of preference.  Brits don't generally use the word "gotten", and therefore, a lot of people think it is not a legitimate word, but it is.

Is this right?

1 gm

0.1 mg

1 mg

I was taught that it was 1.0 mg but doc wants it to be just 1 mg and 1 gm.

Help.  Thanks.

5/5 strength throughout sensation is intact.  So the 5/5 is not at the start of the sentence, how would you reword this phrase?

Would it be MEDICATIONS: Include

1.

2.

3.

Just when I think I have it on format - I don't.  The following is under PHYSICAL EXAMINATION.  What would the subheading be?

Hi... Can someone tell me the correct format for what comes after this med in a dictation:  "Zarontin 250 mg 500 500 250 500?"  Is this 500 am, 500 mid-am, 250 afternoon, 500 bedtime?

Thanks! 

Hi, I'm wondering whether AAMT BOS says to type this:  "image #31 series 3" or this: "image #31, series 3."  Comma or no?

Thank you!  :D

This is so small I hate to ask, but everytime I type this it just looks odd no matter what way I type it and would like to know how another MT would type this. 

If someone has a dull aching sensation or sharp stabbing sensation would you hiphenate (dull-aching sensation) or slash (dull/aching sensation) or just leave it (dull aching sensation)?  Thanks for any input to my "stupid" question.  

I was hoping someone might be able to give me the rule for this.....Should departments be capitalized?  For instance, "she saw University of Virginia orthopedics"  Should orthopedics be capitalized or not? I'm always confused about this:)

Just thought I would pass on some information recently sent to me.

AAMT BOS  (Book of Style), 2nd edition

periods
Do not use periods within or at the end of most abbreviations, including acronyms, abbreviated units of measure, and brief forms. Use a period at the end of abbreviated English units of measure if they may be misread without the period. Better still, write out most English units of measure, thereby avoiding this use of a period at the end of an abbreviation.

wbc
WBC
mg
exam
prep
inch preferred to in. (Do not use in meaning inch without a period.)

However, use periods in lowercase drug-related abbreviations.
b.i.d.
q.4 h. = note it is "q.4" and then a space before the "h."
p.o.
p.r.n.

If a sentence terminates with an abbreviation that requires a period, do not add another period.
He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m.
not He takes Valium 5 mg q.a.m..

plurals
Use a lowercase s without an apostrophe to form the plural of capitalized abbreviations, acronyms, and brief forms.
EEGs
PVCs
CABGs
exams

Use 's to form the plural of lowercase abbreviations.
rbc's
Use 's to form the plural of single-letter abbreviations.
X's

Hyphens and adjectives

15-year-old boy
The patient is a 33-year-old.
2-year 5-month-old child (note no comma in this)
5-1/2-year-old girl
1-month course
.38-caliber pistol - note no leading zero here - see below
two-thirds full
one-half normal saline
half-normal saline
She was panic-stricken
20-pack-year history
self-medicated
shell-like
 
For quantities less than 1, place a zero before the decimal point, except when the number could never equal 1 (e.g., in bullet calibers and in certain statistical expressions such as correlation coefficients and statistical probability).
0.75 mg
.22-caliber rifle