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Gender

Male
Female
Other
No selection = All

NOTE: Ticking multiple boxes will create an OR criteria (i.e. Male OR Female).

DVA

DVA (Department Veteran Affairs)
non DVA
No selection = All

Age

1. Enter a numeric start age or end age to limit your selection
Choose Years (default) or Months as your search filter for start/end age.
NOTE: choosing Months will display the Demographics graph in months.

2. 'No Age' ticked will search for patients with a missing date of birth

Last Visit

The last visit date is the most recent date a patient contact has been recorded.

Note that in some clinical systems it is not possible to distinguish a clinical contact from other notes made in the patient record. This will affect the quality of the data reported. Check the 'General Data Mappings' Appendices for your Clinical system.

Values for selection are:
Any = the last visit was at any time (all patients will be selected)
None = no last visit is recorded
<6 mths = has visited in the last 6 months
<15 mths = has visited in the last 15 months
<24 mths = has visited in the last 24 months
<30 mths = has visited in the last 30 months
Date Range with from/to date selection = only patients whose most recent visit occurred within a period of time. Patients with a visit after the 'to date' will be excluded.

The 'Date Range' filter – to note:
The 'Date Range' filter cannot be used to retrospectively look at the data in a 'snapshot'. The 'snapshot' is only valid for the point in time at which it was taken.

For example: If you filter on last visit between 1 and 2 years ago you will be excluding patients you have had a visit more recently. These patients may or may not have had a visit in the period of time you are selecting.

You will not be selecting all patients who visited within that period.

Activity

Activity is how many patient visits (or contacts) have been recorded with the practice.
Values for selection are:
Active = has had 3 visits in the last 2 years (RACGP definition)
Not Active = a patient not meeting the RACGP definition of active

And/Or
(Number of ) Visits in the last 6 mths
Has not visited in the last X mths; where X can be selected via the drop down.

Transient

This filter deals with patients that have been seen by more than one clinic in the PAT CAT area and thus have been uploaded more than once. If no selection is made, all patients are included in the reports. The following options are available:
Unique Patients = only patients who have been seen by one practice in the PHN or other organisation area (for the selected month) will be included in the reports
Duplicate Patients = only patients who have visited more than one clinic in the PHN or other organisation area (for the selected month) will be included in the reports
This filter is useful to see the reports for patients who visit multiple clinics and for example check their diagnosis or medications. It can also be used to make sure that the focus of the reports is only those patients that have a single doctor/clinic as their primary health care provider.