Pancreatic Cancer Suspicion (HP095)

Purpose:

This protocol will:

1. highlight to users where a patient may be at risk of pancreatic cancer

What does it actually do?

This protocol alert highlights to the clinician where there may be a risk of pancreatic cancer according to the NICE 2015 guidelines - including patients over the age of 60 with: diarrhoea/back pain/abdominal pain/nausea or vomiting/constipation or new onset diabetes. 

What does it look like?

The alert looks like this when users hover over it:

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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