Frailty Status and Assessment (HP345)

Frailty Status and Assessment (HP345)

Purpose:
This protocol will:
  1. help to ensure that frailty awareness is optimised within your practice

What does it actually do?

If a patient is over 65, the protocol looks to see if the patient has had a code of mild, moderate or severe frailty entered last.  If this is the case, the user is alerted to the patients current frailty status and when this data was entered so they can review it or update it.  If there is no frailty assessment recorded the record is assessed to see if the patient has a moderate or severely scored eFI.  If this is the case, the user is alerted to consider undertaking a frailty assessment.  In all cases, the frailty status of the patient can be updated by double clicking on the alert shown.

What does it look like?

The alert looks like this:






If the user hovers over it, further information is shown:
 
or


If the alert is double clicked then the information can be updated:

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, please submit a ticket to have this activated within your system

Support Information

Development Log

VERSION NUMBER 1.0.0

Published 2/10/24
Release notes: Initial build

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