Recipe Name:

Identify elevated CV risk - Part B: Identifying patients who are not currently recorded with Heart Failure but are prescribed ARB and/or ACE Inhibitors

Rationale:

Patient records in clinical systems may contain incomplete or un-coded (free text) diagnoses. This can result in a misleading reflection of patient population data.

Heart Failure patients are often prescribed ARB and/or ACE Inhibitors. There may be patients in the clinical system who despite  being prescribed these medications, are not recorded as having a Heart Failure condition.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This recipe is a guide only to identifying patients that may have a missing diagnosis.

The decision on any action that is taken with respect to patients that this search identifies is a decision that rests completely with the practice and/ or clinician.

Target:

To identify patients who are currently prescribed ARB and/or ACE Inhibitors and are not recorded as having had Heart Failure.

CAT Starting Point:

  1. CAT Open - CAT4 view (all reports) loaded
  2. Population Extract Loaded and Extract Pane “Hidden”
    1. Filter Pane open and under the ‘General’ tab ‘Active Patients’ (3x <2 years) selected (this step can be
       omitted if you want to search for all patients).
     

 

 

 

Recipe Steps Filters

 

 

 

 

 

This will produce a list of patients who have no recorded coded diagnosis of Heart Failure but are currently prescribed ARB and/or ACE Inhibitors.

It is up to the practice to decide what steps should be taken with this list. It may be the case that there are patients who have not been coded as having Heat Failure and the decision on how to address this list is at the sole discretion of the practice

 

 

 

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