Recipe Name

Identify patients who are at risk of Type II Diabetes

Rationale

According to RACGP clinical guidelines1, Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes in Australia, although many cases remain undiagnosed.

There are several risk factors1 that make an individual at high risk of Type 2 diabetes. In this recipe we will look at patients with some of those risk factors such as:

  • People with BMI >=30 and age >=40 years
  • People with hypertension and age >=40 years
  • Women with history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
  • Patients taking anti-psychotic medication


    This may help practices identify patients who can be recommended for AUSDRISK or T2DM Diagnostic Testing.

Target

Patients at high risk of Type II Diabetes who can be recommended for AUSDRISK or T2DM Diagnostic Testing

CAT Starting Point

  1. CAT Open – CAT4 view (all reports) loaded.
  2. Population extract loaded and extract pane "hidden".
  3. Optional Only (star): Filter Pane Open and under the 'General' tab, "Active Patients (3x < 2 years)" selected.


    *The decision to select either "Active" or "All" patient is left to the practice to make

1 http://www.racgp.org.au/your-practice/guidelines/diabetes/3-screening,-risk-assessment,-case-finding-and-diagnosis/31-identifying-risk-of-diabetes-in-asymptomatic-patients/



Click Recalculate to apply the filter for active patients only.


  1. Patients with BMI >=30 and age >=40 years

In the Filters Pane







Click Recalculate.
Click Hide Filter.
If you want to see only those patients that have visited in the last 12 months or had multiple visits in the last 6 months, you may add more filter before you click Recalculate by following the steps in "Filter for patients that are frequently visiting your practice" below.


In the Reports Pane



You can check the Select All box or the Female or Male legend if you want to see a separate list of female or male patients then click View Population. This will load a worksheet with the list of patients and their information particularly the last column that shows the assigned provider and date of last visit.



  1. Patients with hypertension and age >=40 years

In the Filters Pane





Click Recalculate.
Click Hide Filter.
If you want to see only those patients that have visited in the last 12 months or had multiple visits in the last 6 months, you may add more filter before you click Recalculate by following the steps in "Filter for patients that are frequently visiting your practice" below.


In the Reports Pane



You can check the Select All box or the Female or Male legend if you want to see a separate list of female or male patients then click View Population. This will load a worksheet with the list of patients and their information particularly the last column that shows the assigned provider and date of last visit.



  1. Women with history of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

In the Filters Pane



Click Recalculate.
Click Hide Filter.
If you want to see only those patients that have visited in the last 12 months or had multiple visits in the last 6 months, you may add more filter before you click Recalculate by following the steps in "Filter for patients that are frequently visiting your practice" below.
In the Reports Pane



Click the Female legend or you can also click Select All then click the View Population button. This will load a worksheet with the list of patients and their information particularly the last column that shows the assigned provider and date of last visit.



  1. Patients taking anti-psychotic medication

In the Filters Pane





Click Recalculate.
Click Hide Filter.


If you want to see only those patients that have visited in the last 12 months or had multiple visits in the last 6 months, you may add more filter before you click Recalculate by following the steps in "Filter for patients that are frequently visiting your practice" below.


In the Reports Pane



To see the list of patients in a worksheet you can either check the Select All box or the Female or Male legend then click View Population. This will load a worksheet with the list of patients and their information particularly the last column that shows the assigned provider and date of last visit.



  1. Filter by Ethnicity and Age to identify group of patients that can be recommended for AUSDRISK

As per RACGP guidelines, individuals should be screened for risk of diabetes every three years from 40 years of age for Non-Indigenous and from 18 years of age for Indigenous using AUSDRISK. After you select the filters as per risk factors criteria above, you can add the filters below before you recalculate to further filter by ethnicity or age.



To further filter by age still on the Filters pane, go to 'General' tab then enter the age either 18 or 40 at the 'Start Age' box under Age.



Click Recalculate.


  1. Filter for patients that are frequently visiting your practice

Patients that have visited in the last 12 months



Patients that had multiple visits in the last 6 months




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