Recipe Name:

Patients taking Glucocorticoids who are smokers

Rationale:

Smoking can cause additional problems for patients taking Glucocorticoids medication

Target:

Identifying all patients who are daily or irregular smokers and are taking Glucocorticoids

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:





Recipe Steps Reports



This will filter for all active (if selected on the general filter tab) patients that are currently on Glucocorticoids and smoke. There are two ways to target the relevant age groups (for women >= 45 yrs and men >= 50 yrs). You can click on the age groups of interest on the ‘Demographic’ tab in the report pane:





Or you can use the ‘General’ tab in the filters to apply a filter for female or male clients at the right age. Please note you will have to do this once for females and once for males.



Once you have applied the filter above you can click on ‘View Pop.’ to see all clients you have filtered for.



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