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.
The following 'episode and assessments' screen will appear.
The episode information is on the left hand side of the screen and the patient's details can be found above the episode information. This includes the patient name, patient identifier and date of birth.
The assessment information is on the right hand side of the screen. The assessment information that appears on the right hand side of the screen relate to the episode that is highlighted on the left hand side. To look at the assessments for different episodes, highlight the episode that you are interested in.
In the top right hand corner of the screen is a 'View Report' button. This button will create a report for the current episode including all the patient, episode and phase information.
Assessment level information can only been entered if an episode has been created for the patient. Assessment dates must be between on or after episode start date and on or before the episode end date.
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:
- Assessment level enables printable reports to include daily assessments for patients in the terminal phase
- The printable reports track 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.
Your service will need to decide if you will be entering assessment level data or phase level data into palCentre before starting data entry. Please follow the appropriate instructions below for data entry.