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The revised Respiratory filter (CAT4 version 4.7.2) provides backwards compatibility with the earlier CAT4 versions whilst aligning with the new Asthma and COPD medication guidelines available at
- National Asthma Council of Australia 2016 chart
https://assets.nationalasthma.org.au/resources/NAC-Medications-Chart-2016_A2.pdf
The new guidelines:
- Categorise medications as SABA, SAMA, LABA, LAMA, Preventers and Combinations.
- Indicate which medications are for use with Asthma, COPD or both.
- Include Relievers for use in COPD.
Relievers | SABA | Asthma or COPD |
SAMA | Asthma or COPD | |
Symptom Controllers | LABA Salmeteral or Formoterol Indacterol |
Asthma COPD |
Management | LAMA | COPD |
Preventers | ICS and Non Steroidal | Asthma |
Combination | ICS/LABA | Asthma |
LAMA/LABA | COPD |
LABA Long Acting Beta Agonist | LAMA Long Acting Muscarinic Antagonist | SABA Short Acting Beta Agonist | SAMA Short Acting Muscarinic Antagonist
CAT continues to group the medications under Antiasthmatic and COPD to support existing CAT functionality that allows for searches by condition category. As the Relievers can now also be used in COPD, an additional option under COPD allows for these to be included in a COPD medication search.
If you load older data extracts, the filter will be limited to the 'Management Tiotropium (LAMA) category, as we previously didn't collect the other drugs for COPD.
medications filter mappings are provided in the 'Medications Data Mappings' Appendices for each clinical system.
Medications are flagged as true if they are on the patient's current medication list. The collection process does not make any decisions about whether a medication should actually have been removed from the current medication list. The GP is responsible for making sure the list of medications is accurate.