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	Reporting Registers are Zero
Posted By: Matt Bradstock-Smith On: 21 Sep 2009 12:20 PM

Details Why does a Reporting register read zero in QOFcountdown but not in Clinical Audit?

QOFcountdown and Clinical Audit read the same files, so there shouldn't be any difference. But many people don’t realise that Vision Clinical Audit defaults to the Monitoring rather than the Reporting view.

It's important to compare like with like i.e. Monitoring in Clinical Audit with Monitoring in QOFcountdown, and Reporting in Clinical Audit with Reporting in QOFcountdown. In QOFcountdown it's very easy to switch between the two - you just press the relevant button. In Clinical Audit you have to select the correct view in the drop-down box in the toolbar at the top. If you change the Clinical Audit view to Reporting you will find these registers read zero there as well.

Some of the registers - Epilepsy, Thyroid etc - are zero because to be on them you have to have a) the disease, and b) a relevant prescription within a given time-frame e.g. the “last” six months. This is fine as far as Monitoring is concerned – all the patients will have had scripts in the last 6 months. But the Reporting audits are looking at the last six months to the end of the financial year – i.e. the period from 1/10/09 to 31/3/10. If you are looking before 1/10/09 it is impossible for a patient to have had a prescription after 1/10/09 so the Reporting register will read zero, and will start filling up in the two or three months following 1/10/09.

You can find more information on this sort of anomaly in the manual and there has also been a fair amount of comment about it on the NVUG forum http://www.nvug.org/forum/ over the past few months.

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