Prevalence Searches

Vision+ provides a number of data tidy searches which allow the practice to maintain accurate disease registers. Prevalence Searches look for patients who have been potentially overlooked and should be on a QOF disease register. If the patient should be on a QOF disease register then the clinician can add the relevant Read code by clicking on the Contract icon in the usual way from from the Read code data entry screen. If the patient should not be on the QOF disease register then they remain on the Prevalence Searches list. All the usual functionality associated with patient lists are available. As with all other templates, the popup alert indicator will appear advising the clinician of the Prevalence Search.

An example of a Prevalence Search are patients with Asthma related Read codes who do not have an Asthma diagnosis. It may be that the patient has a History of Asthma Read code but no Diagnosis Read code, and they may need one adding on to their record. This can then easily be done through Vision+.

Note - To view Popup Alert Indicators for the Prevalence Searches, the Prevalence Searches setting must be enabled in the Settings screen.