Recipe Name:

Identifying Home Medication Review candidates: Heart Failure patients who are not on ACE inhibitors

Rationale:

ACE inhibitors reduce mortality and morbidity at any grade of systolic heart failure (NPS News 57), even in patients with asymptomatic disease. A search of electronic records can help identify high-risk patients who may benefit from a medication review. This initiative will assist GPs in improving the quality of their prescribing for heart failure.

Target:

To identify patients who would benefit from a Home Medication Review (DMMR).

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).
     

 

 

 

Filter Steps


 


 

 

Recipe Steps Reports


 

This list will display those patients diagnosed with Heart Failure who are not on ACE inhibitors, but are on more than 8 other medications.

 

 

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