An outpatient arrives at an imaging clinic for a fluoroscopy…
An outpatient arrives at an imaging clinic for a fluoroscopy study that is ordered from his physician. The exam begins, and after some time the fluoroscopy timer alerts the radiographer that 5 minutes of fluoroscopy have been used. The radiographer notes the time and continues with the exam. When the procedure is completed, the technologist notices that the total amount of fluoroscopy time used was 9 minutes and 32 seconds, but fails to write it down. He dismisses the patient, cleans the room, and closes the procedure in the system. The radiographer goes to the workstation to complete the documentation for the procedure, cannot recall the total amount of fluoroscopy time, and it is no longer visible in the equipment. He remembers that the 5-minute timer sounded once, so he decides to document that only 5 minutes of fluoroscopy was used. This is an example of an act of:
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