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When you have identified a potential LTC patient you can start the assessment phase. Go to LTC Manager > LTC Assessment Tool in the patient info screen to Once you have identified a patient as potentially LTC, go into the Patient. From the top of the screen, go to LTC Manager, LTC Assessment Tool and do a new assessment.
(You can also access this via from the daily dispensing log screen under Patient Care).How do I use
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LTC Assessment Tool
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The RxOne Assessment Tool is based on the paper Assessment form. Fill in this as Complete this in the same way you would normally fill in the paper assessment form. The paper based LTC Assessment Tool, upon which the RxOne Assessment Tool is based, may take you 30-45 minutes. This can be completed in RxOne as you dispense.
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If a box is greyed out it means that you have not entered enough criteria. As you complete questions the boxes will become editable. There is an indicator at the bottom of the screen that will change colour between red, yellow and green. This tells you the progress of the assessment and whether your patient has become eligible. |
Initial screening
Enter your staff ID.
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Fill in the first three sections (Q1,2 &3) on page one before you can go further. If there is no score on page one, then it is not possible to proceed to next page (i.e. The patient does not fulfil initial screening criteria).
After filling in Q1 and Q2, you may see some scores next to the page numbers as RxOne has automatically populated as much information as it can.
You can see the RxOne estimated % percantage compliance under Section 3 (Q3)
If the RxOne estimated compliance is less than 80%, a score of 10 will automatically applied.
If the computer estimated compliance is greater than 80%, but you have evidence that the patient is non-compliant or have identified factors that negatively affects the patients compliance and self management of medicines, then under Pharmacy Assessed click on the down arrow on the selection box to select score and reason.
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This is only a guide. Since some drugs can be used for more than one condition. It's your reponsibility to check the conditions that have been automatically populated is are correct for the patient and change if necessarilyrequired. Also, you will need to manually add other LTCs if required.
The auto-populated LTC is displayed in orange colour the first time it auto-populates. To accept these, select Update LTC Conditions on Patient Record. When you next go back into the Assessment Form they will appear in black.
If you don’t want to accept these auto-populated conditions, then highlight the one you don’t want and select click Delete LTC Condition
To manually add a condition, use click Add LTC Condition. Clicking on this button will bring up the official list of LTC conditions for you to select from. After adding the conditions, you can click on Update LTC Conditions on Patient Record so next time the conditions will be completed for you.
High risk medicines
RxOne will automatically fill this in for you if the patient has medicines in this category. Please check this information. Only score once for each drug and only if for long term use. Use the remove button to remove from the list if necessary.
Check each section carefully.
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Use the LTC last Contact Report. In Dispensary, go to Patient Care Menu, LTC Manager, LTC Reports, LTC Last Contact Report. Select LTC Patients) to identify which patients are due for a re-assessment.
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