Stepping back from the practicalities of the ED and Urgent Care Centre trials it is good to consider the big picture and what we are trying to achieve. As with any engine, significant improvements in performance can be achieved by multiple changes, even minor ones. It’s the same principle used to tune Formula 1 cars, sadly without the same resources!
Month: December 2017
We have many more patients to analyse in this UCC trial so this will be the first of many sessions. The primary task is to make sure that the right SortED record is matched to the correct Electronic Patient Record (EPR) from the UCC. On SortED, we were given permission to collect the patient’s 5-digit EPR number, their age and gender. The date/time seen was automatically recorded. 962 Sort records were available for abstraction. 20 records had an invalid EPR (< or > 5 digits) leaving 942 candidates for abstraction.