A surgeon on the Health Record Committee voices a concern that, although he has been told that the operative report is t

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A surgeon on the Health Record Committee voices a concern that, although he has been told that the operative report is to be dictated immediately after surgery, he has often had to deal with the problem of transcription backlog which prevented the report from getting on the health record in a timely manner. Your advice to this doctor is that when a known backlog exists, he should

A. provide the dictated tape to his staff.
B. request a "stat" report.
C. write a detailed operative note in the record.
D. request that administration hire more transcriptions.