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10 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is on the list of dangerous abbreviations?
a. Fe b. h.s. c. p.o. d. a.c. |
b. h.s. (USE NIGHTLY)
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According to The Book of Style for Medical Transcription, Third Edition, which of the following trends is not acceptable in a healthcare report?
a. Starting a sentence with a conjunction b. Ending a sentence with a preposition c. Contractions d. Split infinitives |
c. Contractions
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Which of the following grammatical styles is recommended in The Book of Style for Medical Transcription, Third Edition?
a. Using periods in the Latin abbreviations e.g., et al., and i.e. b. Dropping the comma that separates a person's last name from a title such as "Jr." c. Placing spaces between parameters when expressing TNM staging. d. Using hyphens in numeric expressions of metric units when forming compound modifiers. |
b. Dropping the comma that separates a person's last name from a title such as "Jr."
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Which of the following is on the list of dangerous abbreviations?
a. b.i.d. b. t.i.d. c. q.4 h. d. q.d. |
d. q.d. (USE DAILY)
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Complete the following sentence: When ideas or inventions become outdated or obsolete, so do(es)_______________.
a. Grammar b. Punctuation c. Abbreviations d. Words |
a. Grammar
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Which of the following is not a risk associated with the use of dangerous abbreviations?
a. Wrong patient b. Wrong dosage c. Wrong strength d. Wrong route |
a. Wrong patient
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The ISMP has published a list of which of the following?
a. Recommended abbreviations b. Dangerous abbreviations c. Safe abbreviations d. Common abbreviations |
b. Dangerous abbreviations
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AHDI and CDIA both recommend continued use of which of the following?
a. Semicolons b. Hyphens c. Contractions d. Serial commas |
d. Serial commas
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Which of the following is an updated recommendation published in the Book of Style for Medical Transcription, Third Edition?
a. Disallowing the use of moving nouns b. Dropping subscripts with EEG electrode references c. Dropping the space between the numeric value and the degree symbol when expressing temperature values d. The use of hyphens in combined words such as e-mail and on-line |
b. Dropping subscripts with EEG electrode references
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Which of the following is a new style trend described in The Book of Style for Medical Transcription, Third Edition?
a. More liberal use of the hyphen b. More stringent use of periods with courtesy titles c. Dropping hyphens with metric units d. Adding a space between parameters when describing malignant tumors using the TNM staging system |
c. Dropping hyphens with metric units
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