What exact correction would you issue for a signed report with the wrong side?

Instruction: Give the corrected addendum wording and the immediate clinical communication. Explain how you preserve the original record and avoid claiming a contact that has not occurred.

Context: In this fictional case, the request, verified markers, and images establish a RIGHT distal radius fracture. Your signed report body says right, but its conclusion says left because of a dictation error. The report has reached the emergency team, which is preparing treatment. State your correction; then explain how the approach changes if an omitted no had reversed a different report’s meaning.

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I would contact the emergency clinician immediately: “My signed conclusion gives the wrong side. I have rechecked the images and identifiers: the fracture is in the right distal radius. Please do not use the left-sided conclusion for treatment.”...

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