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Change: Arterial pH / H+ has
been moved from Page 2 to Page 1.
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Feature: There's a new view menu option, Interventions incomplete.
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Feature: CCMDS: If collecting CCMDS data
using either 'Manual care days with Daily' or 'Manual care days, no daily'
the numeric CCMDS fields appear as blanks. The 'Automatic care days via
interventions' option defaults the fields with zero's.
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Feature: CCMDS: Discharged patients
CCMDS records will show LOS equal to the total of Level 0, Level 1, Level 2
& Level 3 days. Level 0 days are automatically entered to make up any
difference.
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Feature: CCMDS: If collecting CCMDS data using the setting, 'Manual care
days with Daily', by selecting 'Advanced Respiratory' as a supported organ
the level of care will automatically increase to level 3.
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Change: In assessments an alert
message appears when a highest value is entered and the lowest value is
empty.
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Change: LPa02 has been re-named
Lowest Pa02.
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Change: LOS, Level 0 & Level 1 are always present on the CCMDS tab, no
longer preferable.
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Change: Alert messages have been
added to the pregnancy section.
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Feature: Preferences > NHS no. field
for in-house use. Use this option if NHS no. is collected for own use
and doesn't comply with the correct format, ABC1234567 or 123456790.
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Change: Unit numbers for transfer
patients should be between 20000000 and 20999999
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Change: On the Infections tab, if LOS is less than 48 hours the options for
unit acquired infection MRSA / Cdiff are no longer available.
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Feature: Patient, assessment and discharge screens redesigned in accordance
with the ICNARC v3 dataset.
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Feature: Preference option entitled ICNARC v2. Un-ticking the box allows
ICNARC v3 data entry.
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Feature: ICNARC v2 & v3 patients are easily identified from the patient list
screen. Yellow background
shading signifies v2 and white v3.
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Feature: Using the preference item
entitled ‘patient dataset switch option’ a single patient can be changed
from v3 to v2 or v2 to v3. To
use this function on a single record, select the tick box in admission.
For a group of patients in a date range go to File, Preferences,
File, Dataset version for patients.
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Change: The ICNARC list of country codes has been included.
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Change: The ethnicity sort order is determined by code.
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Feature: Postcode validation.
Postcode is only exported when it has 8 characters or less not including
spaces.
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Feature: Alongside postcode is a tick box for ‘Unknown’.
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Feature: Pregnancy section available on the patient tab when Sex = Female.
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Feature: NHS number validation.
A warning will appear if the NHS number is not entered with 10 characters
If this warning is ignored the export file will exclude the NHS number.
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Feature: A re-admission record will use the dataset selected in preferences,
regardless of the dataset used for their previous admission.
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Change: Original hospital admission date changed to original hospital
admission /attended date
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Change: The mechanical ventilation yes/no field on the admission tab can
be switched on in preferences.
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Feature: When a diagnosis is incomplete, the comments to ICNARC window opens
and the partial code automatically entered.
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Feature: Clinical Data > Daily Assessment – depending on the version being
used this window will display the relevant fields.
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Feature: There are two validation checks for physiology data; a usual range
and an acceptable range. If the values are outside the usual range a
warning will appear, if the values are outside the acceptable range, the
value will be deleted.
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Feature: Changing a patient with physiological values to v3 automatically
answers the question, evidence available to abstract physiology data to yes
and brings through any relevant values.
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Change: A patient in the unit for
less than 24hours will display admission and discharge date and time in the
assessment from & to fields.
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Feature: The ICNARC model physiology
scores and probabilities have been included on the scores tab.
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Feature: The field ‘Level of care received at discharge’ automatically
populates with information taken from page 3 of the last assessment.
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Feature: Infection fields are available within the discharge section.
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Feature: Unit acquired infection fields are only visible for patients with a
unit length of stay greater than 48 hours.
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Feature: The infections tab will not be visible if evidence available to
abstract physiology data is set to no.
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Feature: Drop down fields on the CCMDS tab populate automatically depending
on the information available. Unit Function and Unit Bed Configuration are
set in preferences.
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Feature: Non admitted patients have
access to the CCMDS tab where data can be entered manually.
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Feature: When viewing a mixed list of
v2 & v3 patients. If you open a record and use the blue navigation icon only
patients of the same ICNARC version will be opened.
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Feature: Help providing the field
definitions for ICNARC v3 fields is available . Help is switched on by
clicking the red dot in the top right hand corner of each screen
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Change: If you try to change the admission number of a record that has
been exported to ICNARC, the system will advise you not to do it.
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Change: A new version of Pocket MedICUs has been released which is
compatible with both MedICUs v5 and also Windows Mobile 5.
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Change: The improved DVR report can be accessed for an individual patient
or produced automatically on export. The DVR identifies missing data for
both highest and lowest with one comment.
e.g. No relevant data for serum sodium.
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Change: The export window has been
improved.
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Feature: If Zip ICNARC export is selected in preferences, the exported file
will be zipped and encrypted. WinZip
v10 or later and WinZip command line must be installed on the PC for this
feature to function.
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Change: The Critical Care report has
been updated and will display data depending on the ICNARC version set in
preferences.
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Feature: New Super Report: ICON report.
(Intensive Care Outcome Network Study).
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Feature: New Super Report: Organ supported CCMDS report
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Change: Critical Care Summary modified in accordance with the new
dataset. Care Level Days are taken from CCMDS and repatriation has been
added to the admission planning field.
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Feature: Organs support summary now
calculates the total correctly.
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Change: The PMH report has been updated to include the revised HIV/AIDS
field.
