Recipe Name: | Identify active patients with a stroke/TIA condition for referral to Peer Support Programs |
Rationale: | Peers are highly accepted by fellow stroke survivors and carers and are able to provide social support, experiential knowledge and a social comparison that the medical model of care is unable to provide[1]. [1] Solomon P. Peer support/peer provided services underlying processes, benefits, and critical ingredients. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 2004;27(4):392-401. |
Target: | Identify and refer all stroke/TIA patients to the National Stroke Foundation for more information on the peer support program. |
CAT Starting Point: |
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RECIPE Steps Filters:
This list will give you all patient details including the date when they were last seen and who is their assigned provider.
Create a prompt to display in Topbar
To start click on the 'Daily View' icon on the top of your CAT4 screen: Once you have applied the filter(s) and displayed the patients of interest as described above, you can create a prompt that will be shown to all clinicians using Topbar if a patient meeting the prompt criteria is opened in their clinical system. The full guide is available at CAT PLUS PROMPTS and a short guide on how to create prompts in CAT4 can be found at Creating a Prompt in CAT4 To start you have to use the drop-down menu at the bottom of the patient details report and select "Prompt at Consult - Topbar" then click on "Go" to give the new prompt a name. The name you enter is the prompt text displayed in Topbar, so choose a simple but clear name that tells the clinician seeing the prompt what should be done. |
To Export Patient List to Microsoft Excel:
1. Click on the “Export Icon” at the top of the Patient Reidentification window.
2. Click on “Excel”
3. Choose a file name and a location to save to (eg. Create a folder C:/ClinicalAudit/CAT Patient FollowUp)
4. Click “Save”
The steps above will produce a list of patients with contact details in MS Excel which can then be used to:
1. Go back through the individual patient records in the GP Clinical Desktop System (CDS) and update known records
2. Phone patients to update their record
3. Produce a mail merge to recall patients for follow up