Guideline Index

Double clicking on a guideline title will either expand that category and eventually select the guideline. Before the guideline displays, you may first see a list of READ terms which trigger the guideline. If you like, select one of these to add to the patient's record, by clicking once on the line and the Select button. If no record is to be added, just press Cancel. The guideline is then displayed in the Guidelines tab.

The toolbar has the following options:

The logo on the left will be that of Vision for local guidelines or management plans.

• The left hand pointing arrow takes you ultimately to the main Guideline Index screen. Both the left and the right pointing arrow will navigate back and forth through guidelines used in this session.
• Open Plan – Displays the Select Guideline by Mnemonic screen, with the option to select another guideline.
• Guideline red book icon – Clicking on this will open the Guideline index, ie one created for practice use or by a user. Double click on a line to view on screen.
• Expand All / Collapse All – Expand / Collapse the lines of the currently selected report, merging in the details of the currently selected patient. NB do NOT use this when you have only the Index displayed, but it will take hours to expand all the text in all the guidelines!
• Go – Perform a selected action, for instance, to print patient advice, click once in the section to block highlight it, then Go.
• Print option – First highlight the report you want, and either Expand the lines, or select Print Hidden Lines. This prints the report including the currently selected patient's details.
• Font – Enlarge or Reduce size of text, but only for this consultation.
• Attachment - save the currently displayed guideline as a .gif attachment in Attachments - Add.