Grammar and word choice

• Administration
  • Branch Management
  • Admin Settings
    • Number Settings
    • Time Settings
    • Value Settings
    • Security Settings
    • Integration Settings
    • Sharing Patient Data
    • Password Poicy
    • Patient Share (EMR)
  • Profile Management
  • User Management
  • Role Management
  • User Logs
  • Statutory Calendar
  • Admin Reports
    • Module Wise Role Access Report
    • User Wise Role Access Report
  • Test-Section
• GP EMR Beta
  • GP EMR Menu
  • Basics of Doctor’s GP EMR Screen
  • EMR
  • Admit patient
  • Upload
  • IP Visits
  • Discharge Patient
  • OT Request
  • Shift ward
  • Upload
  • Today’s Status
  • Day schedule
• Appointment
  • Book Appointment
  • Cancel Appointment
  • Appointment Scheduler
  • Appointment History
  • Appointment Settings
  • Appointment Reports
    • Doctor Wise Appointment Reports
• Registration
  • Patient Registration Form
    • Demographics
    • Current Address
    • Emergency Contact
    • Guarantor Contact
    • Insurance Details
  • View Patient List
  • Patient Registration
    • Demographics
    • Current Address
    • Emergency Contact
    • Guarantor Contact
    • Insurance Details
  • View Patient List
  • Registration Settings
    • Encounter Class
    • Demographics
    • Address Details
    • Employment Details
    • Contact Persons
    • Insurance Policies
    • Other Details
    • Show Patients Past Visit Details
    • Show Payee Section
  • Registration Reports
    • Guarantor Contact
    • Patient Consultation Report
    • Appointment Type Wise Visited Patient Details
    • Patient Visit Details
    • OPD Referral Dr Wise Visit Details (Registration)
    • OPD Doctor Wise Patient Details
    • OPD Department Wise Patient Details
    • OPD Consultation Report
• Medical Billing
  • Catalogue
    • Branch Level Configuration
    • Rate Card
    • Package Creation
  • Test Library
  • Billing
    • Encounter creation
    • Service Recording Screen
  • Tariff search tab
  • Invoice list tab
  • Expenditure tab
  • Medical Billing Settings
    • General Settings
    • Number Settings
    • Room Settings
    • Insurance & Corporates Settings
    • Limits & Approvals Settings
    • Patient Referral Settings
    • Doctor commission
  • Medical Billing Reports
    • Advance Collection Report
    • Cancelled Invoice Details
    • Cancelled Services Report
    • Daily Base Patient Report
    • Daily Collection Report
    • Daily Service Report
    • Department Wise Invoice Details
    • Doctorwise Discount Details
    • Doctor Wise Invoice Details
    • Doctor Wise OP and IP Revenue Breakup
    • Due Collection Reporting
    • Due and Discount Details Report
    • Employee Expenditure Report
    • Insurance Summary Report
    • Invoice Wise Write Off Details
    • IPD Summary Report
    • Patient Balance Due Details
    • Patient Consolidated Diagnostic Report
    • Patient Consolidated Pharmacy Report
    • Payment Mode Wise Advance Collection Report
    • Payment Mode Wise Invoice Details
    • Referral Doctor Wise Billing Report
    • Referral Wise Invoice Details
    • Service Type Based Invoice Report
    • Service Wise Invoice Details
    • User Wise Collection Report
    • User Wise Invoice Report
• New Lab Module
  • Order Management
    • Generated order
  • Sample Management
    • Sample collection
  • Operational management
    • Analyst Mapping
    • Analyst worksheet
    • Result Verification
    • Integration Errors
  • Equipment master
  • Test Master
  • Audit trial
  • Inventory Management
    • Vendor Management
    • Purchase Order
    • Vendor Invoice
    • Inventory
    • Returns to Vendor
    • Indent to Warehouse
    • Indent Returns to Warehouse
    • Consumption
  • Lab Reports
    • Bill Wise Lab Sales Report
    • Lab Sales Report
  • Lab Settings
• OT Management
  • Raising an OT Request
  • OT Allocation
  • Checking OT Schedule
  • Patient Status in OT Schedule
  • OT Status
• Pharmacy
  • Store Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Branch Store Management
    • Purchase Order
    • Vendor Invoice
    • Returns to Vendor
    • Indents to HO
    • Indent Returns (HO)
    • Inventory
    • Store Returns
    • Store Inventory Details
    • Store Requests
  • Point of Sale
  • Dispensary
  • Store
  • MMF
  • Pharmacy Settings
  • Pharmacy Reports
    • Expired Drug Report
    • Inventory Data Update Report
    • IPD Dispensary Sale Report
    • Near Expiry Drugs Report
    • Out of Stock Report
    • Payment Wise Sale Report
    • Pharmacy Current Inventory
    • Pharmacy Detailed Sale Report
    • Pharmacy Discount Reports
    • Pharmacy Drug Wise Sale Reports- (Excel)
    • Pharmacy Item Sold Report
    • Pharmacy Profit Report
    • Pharmacy Sales Report
    • Purchase Register
    • Top Moving Drugs Report
    • Vendor Wise Invoice Summary Report
• Electronic Medical Records
  • Settings
  • Workbench
  • User Access Control
  • Medical Chart
    • Examination
    • CPOE
    • ePrescription
    • Surgery
    • Diagnosis
    • Clinical Summary
    • Orders
    • Documents
    • Flow Sheet
    • Rx List
  • Care Management
    • Clinical Templates
      • Clinical Template Settings
      • Clinical Template Management
    • Clinical Pathway
      • Clinical Pathway Settings
      • Clinical Pathway Management
  • Patient Management
    • Past Visits
    • OT Request
    • Shift Ward
    • Transfer Patient
    • Share Patient
    • Upload Documents
• Communication module
  • SMS settings
  • Sending an SMS
    • To Individual (s)
    • To Specific Groups
  • Schedule SMS
    • Schedule Birthday Events
    • Creating New Events
  • Excel Upload
• Drucare Direct Mobile app
  • MIS Dashboard
    • Operational
    • Clinical
    • Financial
  • Search Graphs
  • Patient Que
    • Vitals
    • Examination
    • CPOE
    • ERX
  • OP Casesheet
  • Profile
  • Menu
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Bills
    • Appointments
    • Lab Details
    • Logout
  • Dispatch to Delivery
• Ward Management
  • Adding Building
    • Adding floors
    • Adding ward
    • Adding Rooms and Beds
  • Deleting a Room
  • Increasing/ Decreasing Beds
  • Bed Allocation
  • Bed Enquiry
  • Discharge Summary
  • Ward Reports
    • Bed Occupancy Report
    • Consolidated Admission and Discharge Report
    • Daily discharge report
    • Day wise admission report
    • Day Wise Discharge Report
• Nursing Station
  • Nursing Station
• Imaging
  • Admin
  • Technician
  • Doctor
  • Imaging Settings
  • Imaging Reports
    • Radiologist Wise Invoice Details
    • Imaging Service Wise Invoice Details
• MIS Module
  • Operations
  • Financial
  • Clinical
• Warehouse
  • Purchase Management
    • Purchase Order
    • List of Vendor
    • Vendor Invoice
    • Vendor Returns
    • Vendor Returns History
    • Debit Note History
  • Inventory
    • Inventory List
    • Add to Inventory
    • Stock Transfer
    • Low Stock
    • Inventory Guidance Detail
    • Item Purchase & Sale Details
    • Branch Indent Request
    • Branch Indent Returns
    • Branch Inventory Details
  • Sale Management
    • Sale Order
    • Sale Invoice
    • List of customer
    • Sales Return
    • Return History
    • Credit Note History
    • Delivery Details
  • Warehouse Settings
    • Warehouse List
    • Item List
    • Product List
    • Tax Category
    • Carton Box
    • Currency Exchange Rate
    • Alerts
    • Package Creation
  • Integration with MYOB
  • Warehouse Reports
    • Current Inventory Stock Report
    • Customer Sale Invoice Report
    • Customer Sale Order Report
    • Customer Wise Due Collection Report
    • Low Stock Inventory Report
    • Sale Invoice Report
    • Sale Order Report
    • Sales Person Report
    • Vendor Wise Invoice Details
    • Warehouse Due Collection Report
• Reports
  • Admin Reports
  • Appointment Reports
  • Registration Reports
  • Billing Reports
  • Lab Reports
  • Warehouse Reports
  • Imaging Reports
  • Pharmacy Reports
• Drucare Document Formatting Guide
  • 1 Presentation: the look and feel
    • 1.1 Presentation Styles
      • (a) Being exhaustive (US-style) or Conceptual (European style)
    • 1.2 General matters: fonts, spacing, alignment and margins
      • (a) About fonts: nature and legibility
      • (b) About spacing, alignment and margins: readability
    • 1.3 Layout and numbering
      • (a) Articles and sections
      • (b) Numbering
      • (c) Indentation
      • (d) Enumerations
      • (e) Bullet points
    • 1.4 Headings and captions
    • 1.5 Schedules, annexes and exhibits
    • 1.6 House style rules
  • 2 Typical drafting habits and ‘legalese’
    • 2.1 Do’s and don’ts
      • (a) Think first: and/or
      • (b) ‘In order to’ (avoid explanations)
      • (c) Not shall and will (but only one of them)
      • (d) ‘Said’, ‘such’ and links
      • (e) – Do not write (s) and do not use /
      • (f) ‘The same’ and ‘that certain’
      • (g) Herein, thereof, everywhereof
      • (h) ‘Mutual’ is a pleonasm
      • (i) Do not emphasise the unnecessary
      • (j) Use of ‘when’, ‘if’ and ‘to the extent that’
      • (k) Use of synonyms and hendiadyses
      • (l) Certain vague terms: without undue delay
    • 2.2 Numbers and formulae
      • (a) Best practice rules on drafting numbers
      • (b) Drafting fractions
      • (c) Ranges of figures
      • (d) References to dates
      • (e) References to time
  • 3 Templates
    • 3.1 Drafting Conventions
    • 3.2 Drucare Style Rules
• Drucare Documentation Style Guide
  • Welcome
    • Welcome to the Drucare Style Guide
    • Latest changes to the Drucare Style Guide
  • A word about Drucare docs
    • A word about Drucare docs
  • Usage dictionary
    • Usage dictionary
  • Voice and tone
    • Tone
    • Use plain language
    • Be active and present
    • Write in indicative or imperative mood
    • Avoid anthropomorphisms
  • Accessibility
    • Write accessible documentation
    • Include alt text in images
  • Bias-free communication
    • Write unbiased documentation
  • Capitalization
    • Capitalization
  • Formatting text
    • Formatting reference
    • Line breaks
    • Monospaced font
    • Bold type
    • Italics
  • Grammar and word choice
    • Abbreviations
    • Acronyms
    • Contractions
    • Example names and domains
    • Plurals in parentheses
    • Possessives
    • Pronouns
    • Standard English spelling and phrases
  • Images
    • Best practices for including images
    • Types of images
  • Links
    • Best practices for including links
    • Links for Drulexicon entries and download files
    • Links to Drucare materials
    • Links to third-party websites
  • Lists
    • Best practices for writing with lists
    • Bulleted lists
    • Numbered lists
    • Definition lists
  • Notes and cautions
    • Best practices for using callout boxes
    • Note callout boxes
    • Caution callout boxes
  • Numbers
    • Using numbers in text
    • Dates
    • Commas and decimals
    • Fractions
    • Measurements
    • Phone numbers
    • Ranges
    • Time
    • Versions
  • Punctuation and symbols
    • Show symbols in text
    • Ampersand
    • Apostrophe
    • Brackets
    • Colon
    • Comma
    • Dashes
    • Parentheses
    • Percent
    • Period
    • Quotation marks
    • Slashes
    • Special characters
  • Drucare terminology and trademarks
    • Drucare product terminology
    • Drucare Web terminology
    • Trademark attribution
  • Tables
    • Best practices for including tables
  • Third-party information
    • Documenting third-party products
  • Titles and headings
    • Manual names, topic titles, and section headings
  • UI text guidelines
    • UI text style guidelines
  • Additional resources
    • Where to look if the Drucare Style Guide doesn’t answer your question
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• User Management
• Role Management
• Admin Settings