Guide To Transcription (UK)

 PAKA TATANDAAN PO NINYO

Word List

• Beta thalassaemia
• accuRx
• Attend Anywhere
• Akin osteotomy
• beta-blocker (with hyphen)
• beta-plus thalassaemia
• beta-zero thalassaemia
• boilermaker
• boots and bars
• brewery worker
• coeliac screen
• corneal neovascularisation
• correctable
• D-mannose
• e-distribution
• Epidiolex (Lewis James only)
• ETV6/RUNX1 gene fusion
• Filamin A deficiency
• full face mask (unhyphenated)
• hCG results 
• hyperoxaluria
• hypophosphatemic rickets
• Kasai portoenterostomy 
• licence (Noun British)
• long-standing
• macrothrombocytopenia
• meter reader
• neurodisability
• newsagent
• nidus - point of origin of an infection or disease process
• osteopenia (same as American)
• PHITT
• Ponseti programme/treatment
• port wine stain
• Postadenotonsillectomy
• postCOVID fibrosis
• reassessment
• Roux-Goldthwait procedure
• scleromyxoedema
• Silfverskiold test
• Stage IEA follicular lymphoma
• T2-star MRI
• The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital ( The is capitalised)
• The Sunflower Centre
• trapeziumectomy
• vetiginous illness
• Wassel II duplication
• whisky
• Wiberg type III patella
• Yankauer suction
• yardsman
• Yoghurt (UK)

Hyphenated

• IGF-1
• foot-drop (hyphenated)
• gastroc-soleus
• mini-pill
• night-time
• pre-op
• Pre-pubertal
• pre-term
• well-being
• pre-operative

Two Words

• club foot
• corneal neovascularisation
• drop foot
• flat feet (2 words)
• hammer toe/s (two words)
• home care (two words)
• home-school (unhyphenated)
• home-schooler (unhyphenated)
• home-schooling (unhyphenated)
• nail bed (two words)
• neutropenia
• non-tender 
• pin tract
• time frame
• video clip
• web space

One Word

• answerphone
• backup (noun/adj)
• cryoballoon
• daytime
• flatfoot
• pretreatment
• sixth form (lower case)
• workup

Medications

• Aciclovir
• Cinnarizine
• Cod Liver Oil
• Flixonase nasules
• Halmagyi head thrust
• Ketotifen
• mal de debarquement
• Marcain
• MucoClear 3% Saline nebulisers
• Sukkarto
• Vagisil
• Mydrilate eye drops
• Virgan eye gel

Compound word with hyphen

Noun/Adjective:

follow-up, check-up, flare-up, full-time, backup, workup

Verb:

follow up, check up, flare up, back up, work up

a. She works as a catering supervisor full time (adverb)

b. She works as a full-time (adjective) catering supervisor

c. Full-time (noun) for this job is usually 40 hours a week

home-schooling (unhyphenated)

home-schooler (unhyphenated)

home-school (unhyphenated)

non-tender 

TAD

• in clinic/on clinic
• plus minus/plus or minus
• recurrence/reoccurrence
• blood/s room
• unable/not able
• would be happy to see patient/would happily see patient
• consideration of/for
• till/until
• round/around
• though/although
• discharge/discharged
• this/these, all this/all these | note: 'this' can sometimes mean things taken as a whole

One word vs two words

- answerphone

- cryoballoon

- web space

- time frame

- video clip

- daytime

D: Dictated MR number/Unit number/patient number then digits less than 10

T: TAD

 Author said ―has/have gotten‖ type ―has/have got‖.

 Author said ―there isn‘t any‖ type ―there is no‖.

 Author said ―there aren‘t any‖ type ―there are no‖.

 Author said ―there isn‘t anything‖ type ―there is nothing‖.

 Author said ―there wasn‘t anything‖ type ―there was nothing‖.

Ctrl+T - Alignment

-free (always hyphen)

-wise (always hyphen)

-mid (with Proper noun and numeral)

Arabic Numeral

for grade, tier, group, category, band, figure, table, chapter, section, equation, note, page, paragraph, 

appendix (document)

Roman Numeral

for stage, class, phase, level, segment and type (except DM

spelled out

Length: mile(s), metre(s), inch, foot, yard, mile, furlong, cubit eg 5 feet and 1 inch or 5 foot 4 (TAD)

Volume: pints, gallons, units per pint

Weight: ounces, pounds, stone, tons

micron(s), atmosphere, subcentimetre, half million units