Running the DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) Practice Report

Vision+ contains a suite of pre-defined DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) reports allowing you to monitor patients prescribed with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. From the reports you can manage your patients list, export to a CSV (spreadsheet) file or use the Vision+ Mail Merge facility to contact your patients.

To run and view the DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) reports:

1. Log into Vision 3 in the usual way.
2. From the Windows Notification Area, right click Vision+  and select Practice Reports:

   

3. From the Practice Reports menu, select Practice Lists:

   

4. From Search for practice lists, search for and select DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland):

   

5. A message displays stating 'Do you want to run this practice list now, or schedule it to run in the next 24 hours?':

   

   Select from:

   • Run now - To run the report. The report screen displays with a progress bar.

     Training Tip - To run a report for call and recall invite purposes, you must select Run now.

   • Schedule - To schedule the report in the next 24 hours, the Schedule screen displays, enter a start time in the next 24 hours to run the report:

     Training Tip - This must be set using the 24 hour clock, for example, for 4pm use 16:00.

     

     You can now continue working as usual and the report runs as scheduled. Once a report is complete it displays in the Practice Reports - Last Run screen.

   • Cancel - To exit the confirmation screen.

6. Once the reports have run, the DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) reports display:

   

   The DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) reports are grouped into categories making it easier to identify specific cohorts of patients and to prioritise your workload.

   The three categories that display are:

   • Category: DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) - This batch of reports looks at patients who currently take DMARDs medication and their shared care agreement status. To monitor a specific drug for a specific patient you have to record the shared care agreement and monitoring frequency, see Shared Care Agreement and Drug Monitoring Frequency for details.

   • Category: DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) - Admin urgent and Admin routine - This batch of reports looks at patients with overdue tests or tests that are required imminently. They are split into urgent and routine to assist with allocating admin time and workload.

   • Category: DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) - Clinical urgent and Clinical routine - This batch of reports looks at patients that may require clinical intervention. They are split into urgent and routine to assist with allocating admin time and workload.

   Each category is split into Indicator groups and each group contains a list of patients, depending on your selection you have the following options:

   Category

   

   • Print Preview - Select to preview the current report view.

   • Print - Select to print the current report view.

   • CSV File - Select to export to a CSV file.

   • Merge Category - Select to mail merge the category, see Running a Mail Merge from Patient Target Lists for details.

   Indicator

   

   Displays within a Category:

   • Print Preview - Select to preview the current report view.

   • Print - Select to print the current report view.

   • CSV File - Select to export to a CSV file.

   • Merge Indicator - Select to merge the indicator group, see Running a Mail Merge from Patient Target Lists for details.

   • Add Patient Group - Select to save the list of patients as a group in Reporting - Patient Groups, see Saving a List of Patients as a Patient Group for details.

   Individual Patient

   

   Displays within Category - Indicator:

   • Print Preview - Select to preview the current report view.

   • Print - Select to print the current report view.

   • CSV File - Select to export to a CSV file.

   • Open Patient - Select to open the highlighted patient in Consultation Manager.
   • Codeset - Select to add an appropriate clinical term directly into the patient's record.
   • Show Template - Select to launch the DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) template for the patient without having to open Consultation Manager.
     See Accessing the DMARDs Manager (NHS Scotland) Clinical Template for details.
   • Show Indicators - Select to launch the patient's Alert screen without having to open Consultation Manager.
   • Indicator Logic - Select to see why the patient is on the cohort list, this opens the pathway in Pathway Developer.