Recipe Name:

Patients with respiratory conditions and no smoking status recorded

Rationale:

Compared with non-smokers with asthma, smokers with asthma have:

• more asthma symptoms

• worse asthma control

• a more rapid decline in lung function

• more airway inflammation

• less response to preventer medication

Therefore it is important that the smoking status is recorded for every patient diagnosed with a respiratory condition.

Target:

To effectively manage asthma and COPD patients through establishing adequate recording systems.

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 list all active (if selected on the general filter tab) patients with chronic respiratory problems that have no Smoking status entered.




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