Medical Transcription Guide

Book excerpt: Here's the updated, expanded 2nd Edition of the popular pocket guide that answers any questions of style, format, spelling, punctuation, grammar, or number use. Features correct and incorrect examples, rationales, and more. Alphabetically organized for quick reference! Provides correct and incorrect examples to help clarify important concepts. Identifies commonly made errors with a Dont warning. Gives rationales for certain rules and examples, as well as cross references to those rules. Delivers 6 new chapters: Brief Forms, Short Forms, and Medical Slang; Electronic Mail; Faxing Documents; Grammar Help; Obstetric Terms; and Rules to Transcribe By. Plus, a new Appendix provides helpful reference information. Addresses new technologies, such as electronic spell-checkers, e-mail, facsimiles, and page breaks on a computer. Devotes more attention to the differentiation of styles that are accepted in practice. Offers expanded lists of commonly used abbreviations, commonly used short forms, genus and species lists, and other unusual medical terms. Features a revised, updated, and clarified section on rules of grammar that corresponds with changes in Medical Keyboarding, Typing, and Transcribing: Techniques and Procedures, 4th Edition.