Facilitator Handbook 2005 - PRIMIS
Facilitator Handbook 2005 - PRIMIS
Facilitator Handbook 2005 - PRIMIS
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CHART<br />
<strong>PRIMIS</strong> <strong>Facilitator</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong><br />
CHART<br />
Background<br />
CHART stands for Care and Health Analysis in Real Time. It is a software program based on<br />
Excel that enables the quick and easy viewing of data from clinical queries. The software,<br />
which has been developed by <strong>PRIMIS</strong> as an upgraded alternative to Rush for Practices, is<br />
designed to be used within practices allowing the practice staff or <strong>PRIMIS</strong> facilitator to produce<br />
health query language (HQL) queries, taken from a library, which are then run on their clinical<br />
system. The query responses are imported back into CHART. Results are displayed either as<br />
easy-to-read graphs, summary sheets or a spreadsheet. CHART gives a practice the option to<br />
run local, patient-identifiable queries or, if preferred, anonymised queries should they wish to<br />
share data confidentially.<br />
CHART can be used in conjunction with any RFA accredited clinical system with a functioning<br />
MIQUEST interpreter. As the responses are converted into Excel format, the software retains<br />
much of the original Excel functionality, including the ability to sort or filter the extracted data<br />
and drill down through graphical displays to quickly identify groups of patients by type of<br />
recording. Responses take the form of a spreadsheet with one line for each patient included in<br />
the cohort. Each column represents an indicator included in the query, giving a whole patient<br />
picture for that specific clinical area. Viewing the clinical data in this way enables gaps in the<br />
patients’ data relating to the specific query topic to be highlighted and, by using multi-factor<br />
filtering, complex data and/or clinical quality issues can be picked up: for example, identifying<br />
patients with a recorded diabetes diagnosis who have a raised HbA1c and a BMI greater than<br />
25. By archiving results and comparing them with later extractions, any changes or<br />
improvements can be identified.<br />
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