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As a healthcare provider, you have access to patient visits from the Patient List screen. This screen can show one of any number of different patient lists. Each patient list consists of a set of patient visits that meet user-defined criteria, such as patients with certain types of visits, within certain time frames, within certain locations, who have certain relationships to yourself or other providers, and so on (see Types of Patient Lists). With easy-to-use options, you can easily switch from one patient list to another, or add or remove patients to/from a particular patient list, to fit your working style.

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Types of Patient Lists

There are three basic types of patient lists:
  • List: This is the standard type of patient list. It selects patient visits based on user-defined criteria. For example, you might have a List called “My City Inpatients” which shows patients with an Inpatient visit type, with a location of City Hospital, where you are the Attending provider. You can add or remove patients to/from a standard List, as long as the List’s definition allows it.
  • View: This type of patient list is a view onto other Lists and/or Views, with or without additional filters. A View can be a subset of a single List or View, a combination of two or more Lists or Views, or a subset of a combination of Lists and Views. When using a View, you can add or remove patients, however the patients are actually added or removed to/from the source Lists, not the View. Here are some examples of common usage:
    • You have a List of all your patients called “My Patients.” However, when you are rounding in the hospital County General, you only want to see the Inpatients, Observation Patients, and ER visits that are still active (not discharged) in that particular facility. So you create a View called “County General - Rounding”, which only includes those visit types, and drops off the patients after they are discharged.
    • You are a member of the Cardiology department, and once a month you are responsible for the on-call coverage for three of the ten members of your department, so you create a View called “Cardiology On Call.” This View combines your “My City Inpatients” list with the “My City Inpatient” lists for the other three providers. So for example, the View would include these Lists: the “My City Inpatients” list for yourself, the “My City Inpatients (Jones, Charles)” list, the “My Inpatients (Smith, Mary)” list, and the “My City Inpatients (Clark, Joe)” list. Now you can see your own inpatients, as well as those of the other three providers, all in one View.
  • Assignment: This type of list is typically used in situations where responsibility for a pool of patients is shared among different individual providers, or teams of providers. You can add or remove patients to/from an Assignment list, as long as the list’s definition allows it. Assignment lists have three components:
    • The master assignment list consists of the entire pool of patients who meet certain criteria. For example the “ER Assignment List” might consist of all patients with a visit type of ER.
    • A sublist is created for each provider or team that will be treating patients from the pool. For the master “ER Assignment List,” you might have the “ER Jones” and “ER Smith” sublists, or the “ER Gold Team” and “ER Silver Team” sublists. Patients from the pool are assigned to each sublist.
    • The Unassigned sublist is the list of patients from the master assignment list who have not yet been assigned to a sublist for an individual provider or team. All master assignment lists will have an Unassigned sublist.

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Patient List at a Glance

Typically, a patient list displays patient visits for patients who are currently in your care. Providers and administrators can define different patient lists to accommodate different working situations (see Types of Patient Lists). Each patient list changes as patients are admitted or discharged (for inpatients), or have appointments (for outpatient visits). Patients are on a list for a predetermined amount of time, as specified in the patient list’s criteria. Each patient can have multiple encounters, or visits, at your organization. In some cases, a patient may be listed multiple times on a patient list; once for each visit with a unique account number. It depends on the patient list’s criteria and whether the visit is designated as an InFacility visit or a non-InFacility visit. An InFacility visit is a visit where the patient physically resides at the hospital/health center, as might be the case for Inpatient, Emergency Room, Observation, and Labor and Delivery visits. Scheduled appointments or discharged visits are categorized as non-InFacility visits. While a discharged visit is no longer in the facility, it was considered InFacility in the past and might still meet patient list criteria. If you do not have access rights to a facility, patient visits to that facility are not included on patient lists. In general, visits are displayed using the following account-based InFacility logic:
  • When multiple InFacility visits have the same account number and meet the patient list criteria, only the most recent InFacility visit is displayed on the patient list.
  • Other InFacility visits, with unique account numbers, that meet the patient list criteria are displayed on the patient list.
  • Each non-InFacility visit (such as an outpatient appointment) that meets the patient list criteria and has a unique account number will be displayed.
Prior to version 9.2.0.2.31, the “most recent InFacility visit” logic was used for all patient lists. Starting in version 9.2.0.2.31, the “account-based InFacility” logic became the default logic. For version 9.2.0.2.34.8 or later, both types of logic are available. The most recent InFacility visit logic does not use account numbers in the calculation and displays the most recent InFacility visit that meets the patient list criteria.
If necessary, you can also add a patient from the organization’s census list to a patient list, manually create a patient or visit that is not on the census list and then add it to a patient list, or remove a patient from a patient list. The ability to add, manually create, or remove patients is based on your user preferences. The contents of a patient list are updated during synchronization, when you switch patient lists, or when you add or remove patients to/from a list. From the Patient List screen, you can:
  • See patient data since the last sync. The patient list shows how many patients are currently on the list. It also shows basic information about each patient. The designer of the patient list can choose the specific fields that are shown, but typically, these are the standard items: the patient name, reason for visit, age, current location, length of stay (for inpatients), and appointment date and time (for outpatients). In some cases you might see a visit type description such as “Pre-Reg” instead of a location. You might also see a Sepsis Score icon as in these examples:. This icon represents the likelihood (on a scale of 1 to 100) of the patient developing sepsis. The color of the circle transitions from white to yellow to orange to red as the likelihood increases. The Sepsis Score icon is available only if your source system calculates it and sends it to the Commure Pro system.
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  • Review the patient’s visit status. A discharged inpatient is marked with a line struck through the hospital location.
  • See the name of the currently selected patient list, displayed at the top of the screen. Note that the user can tap on the patient list name to open the Manage Patient List screen, where they can switch to a different patient list. See Switching Patient Lists.
  • Manage the contents of a patient list, such as adding or removing patients. See About Patient Lists.
  • For iPads only, you can hide the patient list when in landscape mode so only the patient data displays. Tap the Patients button to collapse or expand the patient list.
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  • Select a patient prior to viewing a different module, such as the Charges or Problem List module. Only one patient can be selected at a time.