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Select Guidelines by Mnemonic
To reach the Select Guideline screen and display a list of existing Guidelines:
- Choose Select Guideline from the Guidelines menu to display the Select Guideline by (READ term/Mnemonic) screen.
- Depending on which sort of guidelines you want to display, check or uncheck the following:
- Locally Generated - To list just the local or practice-defined guidelines created by you in the practice or those you have downloaded, uncheck Reports and Centrally issued. Leave Locally Generated selected.
- You can of course have both checked, as well as Reports, and then scroll down and select what you want. Reports are explained in Patient Reports Overview.
- Male / Female - Some guidelines are specific to one sex or the other, such as that for the menopause. What is ticked here depends on the sex of the patient currently selected.
- There are several ways to select and display a guideline:
- Click once in the large white window to display the whole index; this may take some time to display.
- Select by mnemonic: check By Mnemonic and then either type part of or the whole of a known mnemonic in the top window to display the one with that title, eg type NCDI to find the QOF Diabetes guideline.
Training Tip - if you do not know a guideline mnemonic, guess at it - eg, enter D and look for a dyspepsia or diabetes guideline on the list. - To list Management Plans, type @ and press Enter - though we do not recommend you use this method as it is better to select by right clicking of a line on the left-hand navigation pane such as Examination Findings, and selecting Management Plan.
- Type U_INDEX and press Enter, then View, to display your Local Guideline Index. Double click on one of the guidelines here. See Create your own Local Guideline Index.
- The guidelines are listed. Locally generated guidelines and Reports are mixed together.
