Venous ThromboEmbolism Assessment form
Background: From June 2010, acute trusts were required to submit evidence every month that they are risk assessing inpatients for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) based on standard criteria.
The return to the Department of Health, via their SHAs, requires the total number of inpatient admissions that month and the total number of patients receiving a risk assessment, with a target of 90% compliance. There are incentive payments attached via the CQUIN framework. The DH has not expressed any interest in the data from these assessments, only evidence that they are being done.
Analysis indicates that the effort in collecting VTE data in a trust is significant. Some trusts face going round wards manually reviewing each patient record and counting them up on a spreadsheet. A few, with full control of their PAS, have managed to include a field in the patient episode and so can report from systems. Any standardised system based solution is likely to be some time away.
In our experience, by and large, trusts are performing VTE assessments on the vast majority of patients, however the process they use for this provides no easy mechanism for providing the data the DH require, nor does is provide a strong process for recording clinical interventions arising from the assessment or a means of conduction analysis on VTE assessment data to identify trends or outcomes.
The Cloud2 VTE solution is designed to address these needs.
Solution description:
The Cloud2 VTE solution is part of our Clinical Pack and consists of a sophisticated eForm that complies with and extends the basic DH provided VTE Risk Assessment. It provides additional fields which are conspicuously absent from the DH form (patient identifiers and date of assessment, for example), intelligence so that sections of the assessment are shown only when required.
The form also notifies the user if a clinical intervention is needed and records the intervention.
Data from the assessment is stored in a central form library where it provides a monthly count and can be reviewed, exported for further analysis, etc. By entering the number of Inpatients (from PAS), the DH report is generated. The assessments can also be accessed by staff as required.
The form may be printed if a paper copy is required for the patient record.
