Dental
Care:
This refers
to the regularity of previous dental treatment and professional visits.
Your selection of the choices offered should be the one that best describes
how often the patient presents for exams and treatment. Choose "Emergency"
if the patient is not seen on a regular basis other than for emergencies.
Smoking
History:
For PreViser
use, based on current research, a "smoker" is limited to cigarette
smoking. Other forms of tobacco could be deleterious but there is insufficient
evidence at this time to include them in a Risk Assessment. Therefore,
do not include cigar or pipe smoking, chewing tobacco, or other activities
in classifying a patient's "Smoking History."
"Former
smoker:" This term includes any amount of past
smoking. If the patient used to smoke two packs a day but quit, or if
the patient has smoked three cigarettes in the past decade, both are
considered "former smokers."
Diabetic:
If the
patient is diabetic, rate the level of glycemic control as Good, Fair,
or Poor. For specific information on these ratings please see the Diabetes
Classification page here in the Appendix.
Perio
Exam Date:
This refers
to the date of the exam, not the date of data entry.
Input the date of the exam, in MM/DD/YYYY format. The system will calculate
the patient's age for this Risk Assessment based on the Exam Date compared
to the patient's birth date.
Note: The exam date must be equal to or earlier
than the date when you transmit the Risk Assessment, according to the
system’s logic which will not recognize a future date as valid.
Therefore, you can enter a future exam date and save
the Assessment for later (as Unfinished) but cannot transmit the data
for Risk Calculation until that date is current or past.
By default on unfinished assessments, the Exam Date on the Patient Details
page list appears as today's date (the date you start
the new Risk Assessment).
You can also click the calendar icon next to the date field, which opens
the calendar tool in a small popup window, shown below:
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On the calendar
tool, click on the date of the exam, which closes the calendar
window and returns you to the Patient History screen with
the Date field completed. If you wish to select a date from a different
month, simply use the drop-down lists to change the month or year, then
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If a Patient is over age 89:
Note that
the PreViser RiskCalculator™ requires the Patient age to be between
one and 89 years old to to be risk-assessed.
Remember
that to remain compliant with HIPAA privacy standards, Risk Assessments
cannot be performed on patients over the age of 89. This means that
for a patient age 90 or older, you will have to modify the data entry
in order to transmit the risk assessment.
You can enter all the data, but upon clicking Finish at the end, a message
will inform you that the patient age must be between 1 and 89 years.
At that point, you can return to the Exam Date and change the year so
that the system calculates the patient's age as falling within those
parameters. (In other words, change the patient's apparent age to 89,
to force the information to transmit. This will not affect the risk
score.) See the Medical
Privacy documentation for more details about this requirement.
Prepared By:
This name
appears in the report heading to indicate who prepared it. By default,
this field displays the current Name which appears on the Account Options
page. However, you may change that name if you wish, which allows you
to permanently indicate which clinician prepared a particular report.
This may be useful if you have multiple doctors and hygienists using
the RiskCalculator and you want the reports to show the individual preparer's
name. Also, if you acquire a patient or patients' records (by referral
or by buying a practice, for example), all the past Risk Assessments
are marked with the name of the original person or practice that prepared
the report.
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