Recipe Name: | Patients eligible for BreastScreen aged 50 years and 4 months or older with no recorded mammogram or no recorded mammogram in the past 28 months |
Rationale: | For women diagnosed with breast cancer, the risk of death is 42% lower for women who were diagnosed through BreastScreen than for those women who had never screened. This recipe supports practices to identify women who have not responded to invitations to screen from BreastScreen Australia so that the practice can reinforce to the patient the importance of responding to this invitation/s. The recipe identifies women who are four months or more overdue for screening, allowing a three month period for women to respond to screening invitations or reminders. |
Target: | Female patients aged 50 years and four months or older, with no recorded mammogram or no recorded mammogram in the past 28 months |
Recipe Limitations: | This report excludes patients with a number of conditions under the 'ineligible’ category. Practices should be aware of the diagnosis codes that PEN uses to assign patients to ‘ineligible’. Practices should undertake periodic clinical review of patients in the ‘ineligible’ category to assess if any of these patients should return to screening. Your practice may have patients that you consider clinically ineligible for screening that are not captured by these diagnosis codes. These patients should be manually opted out of screening. |
CAT Starting Point: |
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CAT4 starting point
RECIPE Steps Filters:
In the “General” Tab, select the 'Mths' radio button and enter Start Age = 604 and End Age = 888 months. Practices should decide if they want to send screening reminders to active patients only. Population based screening programs target asymptomatic patients. You may have some patients who consider your practice their medical home who do not fit the criteria for being an ‘active’ patient. If required, select 'Active' to search for your active patients only.
You can select the Gender/Female but the report will automatically show female patients as well as patients with no gender entered. This is the preferred approach, as it will include all patients potentially at risk including those without gender information entered.
Practices should review those patients for whom no gender is entered to ensure they are only sent appropriate cancer screening reminders. Consideration should be given to keeping a register of transgender, gender diverse and intersex patients to support this process
Report Steps
This report will show the selected patients and their mammogram results. Select the following categories from the graph:
This report excludes patients with a number of conditions, including mastectomy. Full details can be found here: https://help.pencs.com.au/display/CG/Diagnosis+Codes+Screening+Tests
The report can also be exported to be sent to the national cancer register for bulk enquiries on patients cervical screening status.