Daily Usage

This article explains the workflow associated with collecting the data for PCOC statutory reporting.

1. Add Diagnosis information;

Diagnosis can be entered in the patient Field 'Diagnosis' under the Demographics session.

2. SLK 

 Automatically generated from Patient information. See SLK Usage Guide.

3. Creating a PCOC Episode on Admission

1. Create your admission
   1. Select the field Care Type: Palliative (This can be defaulted in Admission Category level)
   2.  Tick PCOC assessments conducted (in Admission Category level)
2. View the admission
3. Provided you have PCOC Editor permissions, you will be presented with the ability to Create a new PCOC Episode from this Admission

4. Click on PCOC Episode, this will create a PCOC Episode.

4. Creating a PCOC Episode outside of an Admission

If required, an episode can be started outside of the context of an admission.

View Patient > PCOC Episodes > New.

5. Capturing Observations via the PCOC Assessment

Once the patient is admitted for Palliative Care, the daily observations and phase changes can be monitored and recorded through an  assessment, which is capable of managing the phases in associated PCOC Episode.

Please contact Clintel to configure this assessmenta nd associated trigger.

The Record Phase Change button will open two tabs (this requires popup blocking to be turned off on browser)

1. One for ending the existing Episode Phase (Add Phase End Date etc..)
2. One for creating new episode Phase.

6. Recording PCOC Episode  Phase changes manually (Without using Assessments)

View the PCOC Episode

Choose one of "Move to (phase)" or alternatively click "Add" in the PCOC Phases section.

You are presented with the ability to capture phase information.

Completing a PCOC Phase

View Patient > PCOC Episodes > Show > Identify the correct phase > Actions > Edit

Generally this information will be recorded by staff making the decision to record a phase change, via the assessment processes.

When an end date is specified, a number of other fields are considered mandatory.

Completing a PCOC Episode

View Patient > PCOC Episodes > Identify the correct episode > Actions > Edit

Here you are able to key in the final details of the Episode.

Statuatory Reporting

PCOC

Available under Locations > Statutory Reporting.

QHAPDC

Automatically generated from the PCOC Phases.