Once an episode has been created, you enter the assessment information for that episode. To access the episode and assessment screen, click on the * icon next to the patient name.
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The clinical assessments are assessed daily for inpatient or at each community patient contact. They are reported at admission, when the phase changes and at discharge. Thus there are two ways that data can be entered into palCentre – assessment level or phase level. Assessment level
palCentre allow services to enter all routine assessments as per the service protocol. Some services record daily assessments and some more, some less frequent. The benefits of entering assessment level data are: - If data is entered in real time, the reporting function track tracks the patient journey with all clinical assessments.
- Since all assessments are entered there is no separate data entry protocol to specify what to enter.
- On average each patient requires approx. 7 minutes to enter.
Phase level
palCentre also allow services to enter data on admission, phase change and discharge. This is referred to as phase level data. The benefits of entering phase level data are: - Since only phase change data needs to be entered less time for data entry is required.
- On average each patient requires approx. 4 minutes to enter.
- A separate data entry to the assessment protocol is required to specify the entry of phase change only
- Additional training for the data entry person is required to understand which assessments to enter.
- Printable reports of the patient journey will only include admission, phase change and discharge assessments. It will be missing any assessments that have occurred in-between.
NB: The legacy system SNAPshot system only allows for phase level data to be collected.
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If an item has not been recorded on the form, use the 'Not Assessed' code in the drop down menu. This will ensure you have minimal items appearing on your data quality report. |
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Assessments can be added in any order into palCentre. Once an assessment is added, palCentre will check the date against all other assessment dates and then order all assessments by date. If you miss adding an assessment by accident, add the assessment into the data entry section on the left hand side of the screen and palCentre will place it in the correct order. |
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