Platelets and Cancer Risk (HP066)

Purpose:

This protocol will:

1. highlight to users where a patient has had raised platelets and may be at risk of cancer

What does it actually do?

High platelet results have been shown to be associated with a much higher risk of cancer in patients. Where high platelets have been recorded previously and there is no documented diagnosis to account for this, this protocol will highlight the risk to the user.

What does it look like?

The alert looks like this:

When users hover over it the following information appears:

System Dependencies:

This relies on users coding activity accurately within the clinical system.

System Trigger

System Trigger: Load a patient

Run mode: Always run 

Enable trigger for: All clinical prescribers

Fitting your practice

Your practice team need to know that you are setting this alert live in your system

How to get it

This protocol is an optional handy protocol.  If you want us to install this in your site please ask the person with authorisation to request this to submit a ticket to request this.

Support Information

Development Log

VERSION NUMBER 1.0.0

Published 3/8/24
Release notes: Initial RP rebuild

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