AAMT has wonderful resources on their site. QA Primer and scoring guidelines (and explanations)

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  • AAMT has wonderful resources on their site. QA Primer and scoring guidelines (and explanations) - QA Mgr
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what is the current recommendations for these?  I have been an MT for 7 years and I still type them this way.  Was I off school that day?  Thanks!!!!

While each company uses their personal standards for QA based on client preferences, etc., that is immensely low.  Do you know how each error is weighted, did you have a lot of client complaints or critical errors that dragged you down (drugs, allergies, doc names)?  To score that low on any calculation....you would have to be missing something HUGE.....spellcheck, not looking up anything on any report typed, breaking client preferences over and over, etc....it would take a lot of weighed errors. 

IF you know how the QA is scored, refigure, maybe they calculated wrong.  If you do not...you SHOULD KNOW!!  Find out!

A "don't know what to say" is NOT any kind of helpful feedback if you enjoy you job and you do have the right to ask for help and an explanation of errors marked you do not understand!!!!

What did we ever do before style guidelines? How did we ever type? I guess we have been doing it wrong for all these years. Now we are being graded. What is that about. Am I in grade school. I have been there and done that. Went to college and being treated like an idiot.

I would to see these supervisors and corporate try to sit and type all day.

I've accepted a job as a inhouse transcriptionist/front office person for a smallish physical medicine and rehabilitation practice (one doctor and five other office staff). I've been looking for good fit for my skills, experience and personality for over a year.  It's been especially hard as I've had personal, family and finanacial problems as well during this time.  In other words, this is almost too perfect to believe--I'd given up hoping that anything good would happen for me, so I do want desperately to make this work.  The doctor is a D.O. and, from the interview, she treats fibromyalgia, musculoskeletal diseases, traumatic brain injury, as well as provides comprehensive rehabilitation.  I have had six years of physical therapy dictation and probably 1-1/2 years of family medicine-type dictation all told in three other jobs. 

My questions are:  what are some references to have?  I've been told I can load any software that would help me, after it's checked out by the office manager.  Also, any hints, do's and don't's about working inhouse?  The clerical part will be answering phones and scheduling as needed and filing.  Many thanks for your suggestions!

or AMA, whatever you choose. I've been seeing ads for QA personnel and they don't have to have been MTs. I don't get that.

As I've said before here, I work for an MTSO who believes if you have to have QA personnel, you've hired the wrong MTs. I tend to agree with her.

We get up in the morning, do our work and send it in. If there's something we don't understand, we put a note on the log for the doctor or the hospital - because we're all experienced enough that we either know what we're hearing or know how to find it.

the children to act, be treated, etc.  We have an understanding that I won't let them play in the street, swim unattended, smart mouth an adult, cus, or do anything that is generally dangerous for them.  They love to help cook, garden and just sit on my lap and be read to.  Yes, I may take them shopping a little too often, but they usually have helped in the garden or helped with housework prior, so they are actually earning the money they spend for toys at WalMart. 

I would never undermine their parents (even though the father of the two youngest is a true bum) to them.  I try to always touch upon good things they should be proud of such as "Your mommy sure knows how to fix you hair so nice, I wish I could do it as well."

These grandchildren are the most precious thing in the world to me and the last thing I would do is act in a way that would keep their parents from allowing them to visit.   Maybe you should explain to those grandparents your reasons/concerns.  Surely they would be glad (after an initial sulk maybe) to change their ways in exchange for more hug and kiss time from their grandbabies.

do it too.

the dictating physician will often forget to say the doctor's first name, and there will be 20 Dr. So-and-sos listed.  Or they spell the easy names like Smith, but not the difficult ones that they mangle the pronunciation on.  Then they carbon copy six different physicians.  I've got the hospital directory, online hospital website, online physician address lookup, Google, and other resources, but it's still very time consuming.

I'm thinking I like Meditech better.  LOL  At least everything was in there.  F7, F10, arrow down, save, you're done.

Here are the links from my favorite places. I also have a word list if you need it. Let me know.

http://www.appi.org/dsm.cfx

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11428699&dopt=Abstract

http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/pa/pa03/pa03pdf/0306C-SWS.pdf

http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/curriculum/juvenile/glossary.htm

http://psychclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu/mse.pdf

http://www1.umn.edu/mmpi/Reprints/The%20comparability%20of%20MMPI%20and%20MMPI-2%20scales%20and%20profiles.html

http://www.psychiatry.msu.edu/Clerkship/MentalStatusExam.pdf

http://www.unl.edu/buros/bimm/html/index12.html

http://www.pearsonassessments.com/tests/mmpi_2.htm

http://www.falseallegations.com/mmpi-bw.htm

http://www.brainsource.com/nptests.htm

http://neuro.psyc.memphis.edu/NeuroPsyc/np-dx-demen.htm

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/tests/newfy99.html

http://www.wright.edu/~robert.rando/Interviewing/Class2-05.htm

http://www.utah.edu/umed/courses/year3/psychiatry/psychaid.html

http://angelsghosts.com/state_of_fear.html

http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/assess/mse.htm

http://www.psychpage.com/objective/mmpi2_overview.htm

I have done psych work for over 5 years and it's not just every day words.  I use several web sources (as listed by Amy) and also a psych book.  My psychiatrists also have to report the patient's medical history, so you have to know that as well.  Not to mention, a lot of people have psychiatric problems because of medical conditions. 

Stedman's has a great book that has listings of all the psychiatric tests.  Because of reports going to the medical doctors and psych abbreviations not being common, everything has to be spelled out (at least with my docs).  A lot of the psychotropic drugs can also cause medical conditions, like lithium causing hypothyroidism, Mellaril causing heart problems, Zyprexa and Depakote causing metabolic disorders, etc. so there is a lot of medical going on.  I keep my regular Stedman's on hand, lab/path, cardio, endocrine, ortho (a lot of psych drugs cause imbalances causing falls, which in turn fractures).  I could keep going on, but I think you get the idea.

It is very interesting work, but can be a downer. Good luck!

The computer should be password protected for individual users so files cannot be accessed, but, other than that, HIPAA requires "reasonable care" be taken to safguard patient information.  It does not require any computer used for MT to be used exclusively for that. 

Some believe the computer must be in a locked room.  That is absolutely not a requirement either.  Reasonable care means just that.