RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) alert

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) alert

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) alert 

Type: Protocol 

Overview/Purpose

    To highlight eligibility for the RSV vaccine in older adults
Warning
Due to complexities of coding, this alert does not currently highlight where pregnant women would be eligible. Pregnant patients who have not had an RSV vaccine will still show as eligible in searches.

What does it do?

  • Informs the user that the current patient would be eligible to receive an RSV vaccination, and has not yet received one clicking on the alert loads a small template, allowing the user to record the vaccination or
  • Clicking on the alert will navigate patients to a vaccination admin template were users can document that the patient has declined the vaccination. 

Why is it important?

This protocol alert reminds users to offer the RSV vaccination to eligible patients to protect them against the respiratory disease, whilst also improving uptake across the cohort.

What does it look like?

See below screenshot which shows an example of the patient status alert in a patients record: 




System Dependencies

This patient status alert depends on your clinicians correctly coding RSV vaccinations and declined offers of vaccination. Your clinicians may need to be informed of the importance of this.









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