Practice tip. Diabetes register and recall.
The majority of general practices now have their patients' details entered on a computer database. These details often include a patient's age, sex, allergies, medications, diagnoses and dates of visits. Accessing this information by the general practitioner can prove useful for a variety of purposes including audits, notifications and research. Most medical software available has the capacity to search a database using specified criteria. The following practice tip is a guide to setting up this search process using the commonly used Medical Director software.
Qureshi
Farooq
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Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D012042:Registries; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity