POLAR Walkthrough: Identify RACGP active patients with a dementia diagnosis (pdf 227 KB)
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POLAR Walkthrough: Identify RACGP active patients with a dementia diagnosis (pdf 227 KB)
This activity guides practices to identify their number of RACGP active patients, and how many of those patients have a diagnosis of dementia recorded.
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This activity guides practices to identify their number of RACGP active patients aged 65 years and over, and how many of those patients have a diagnosis ofdementia recorded.
Read More about POLAR Walkthrough: Identify RACGP active patients 65+ with a dementia diagnosis (pdf 257 KB)POLAR Walkthrough: Dementia diagnosis data cleansing activity (pdf 245 KB)
This activity guides practices to identify active patients who have a certain active diagnosis for a data cleanse activity.
Read More about POLAR Walkthrough: Dementia diagnosis data cleansing activity (pdf 245 KB)PDSA Template: Increase utilisation of Dementia screening (docx 285 KB)
Utilise this template to increase rates of screening for dementia amongst relevant patient cohort to improve early detection and intervention.
Read More about PDSA Template: Increase utilisation of Dementia screening (docx 285 KB)Utilise this template to ensure patients with a diagnosis of dementia have a coded recording on their patient file.
Read More about PDSA Template: Dementia Diagnosis Data Cleansing (docx 282 KB)This change ideas document has been created to assist in the improved management of patients with dementia.
Read More about Change Ideas: DementiaPractices can utilize this PDSA Cycle to identify patients with an active diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment, aiming to enhance the management of the overall health and management of comorbidities, inclusive of assessment into any changes in support needs.
Read More about PDSA: Improve Management of patients with DementiaA 3 min clip on how to navigate the Dementia Risk Alert in POLAR
Read More about Dementia Risk Alert POLAR – How to NavigateFor WVPHN practices only, a clinic summary report available in POLAR and a risk algorithm for Walrus, with Best Practice or MedicalDirector:
• identify and group eligible patients for dementia screening
• select a patient cohort based on eligible patients.
A walkthrough created for clinicians wanting to understand how to use the risk algorithm for patients who might require screening for Dementia
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