Sunderland Asthma Template

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Sunderland Asthma Template

• With screen shots to show the use of POP-UP boxes
  in advising on coding of asthma severity

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Areas on template

• Asthma Review Done today
• Recent severity despite Rx (Jones score)
• Level of treatment (BTS score)
• Admissions/AE/Hosp clinic Steroids
• extracted from letters when arrived or
• entered as data since last review
• Smoking (present/past/family/advice)

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Underlying Codes

• Patients on Active Asthma List i.e. scripts for
  asthma Rx issued in last 18months from repeat
  medication screen
• Codes are available to download as an Excel
  spreadsheet from the website www.sunderland.nhs.uk
  /beacon

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Further Areas

• Peak flow (height, pred PFR, actual)
• Use of meters under national review
• Has own peak flow meter y/n
• Trial of steroids (result in free text)
• Vaccines (flu and pneumovac)
• Inhaler Technique
• Asthma Management plan given
• Date for next review

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Areas on template

• Asthma Review Done today
• Recent severity despite Rx (Jones score)
• Level of treatment (BTS score)
• Admissions/AE/Hosp clinic Steroids
• extracted from letters when arrived or
• entered as data since last review
• Smoking (present/past/family/advice)

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Further Areas

• Peak flow (height, pred PFR, actual)
• Use of meters under national review
• Has own peak flow meter y/n
• Trial of steroids (result in free text)
• Vaccines (flu and pneumovac)
• Inhaler Technique
• Asthma Management plan given
• Date for next review

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Summary

• Easy to use with pop-up or written crib
• Some detail can be extracted from letters by
  staff
• Not all detail needed every visit
• Can be added to by if practice wants more detail
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• Spirometry could be included in future