ZZVA-ADVANCED DIRECTIVES EDUCATION (34)    REMINDER DEFINITION (811.9)

Advanced directives information given to all patients once.

• FINDING ITEM:   VA-ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
  NO. OF FOUND TEXT LINES:   0
  NO. NOT FOUND TEXT LINES:   1
  NOT FOUND TEXT:   

  No record of Advanced Directives education/screening on file.
  

  USE IN RESOLUTION LOGIC:   OR
• FINDING ITEM:   VA-ADVANCE DIRECTIVES SCREENING
  NO. OF FOUND TEXT LINES:   0
  NO. NOT FOUND TEXT LINES:   1
  NOT FOUND TEXT:   

  No record of Advanced Directives education/screening on file.
  

  USE IN RESOLUTION LOGIC:   OR

This reminder is distributed with the PCE package.  The source of this
education entry for advanced directive education in the "V Patient Ed."
file.  The V Patient Ed. File summarizes the patient education provided by
clinicians at an encounter/visit.
 
By recording the education topic given at an encounter via a scanned
encounter form (or other interface to PCE), the reminder will be
considered "not indicated". Historical patient education for advanced
directives can be recorded in the PCE User Interface to make the reminder
not indicated.
 
reminder definition is the Ambulatory Care Expert Panel.  It is based on
The Clinical Maintenance component in the Health Summary will display the
latest date on record where advanced directive education/screening was
provided to the patient.
 
Initial installation comment:
 
The PCE package is distributed with a preliminary set of education
topics, which includes the VA-ADVANCED DIRECTIVES, and VA-ADVANCED
DIRECTIVES SCREENING entries. 
 
feedback from facilities wanting to track Advanced Directive Education.
The VA-ADVANCED DIRECTIVES education is defined as this reminders
education topic, in lieu of additional/other Advanced Directive education
topics you might want to create and activate at your site.
 
The VA-ADVANCED DIRECTIVES SCREENING education is defined to help track
the fact that an inquiry or screening was made to determine if the
patient needed Advanced Directive education/counseling.  
 
If this reminder is used at your site, you may want to add at a minimum,
these two education topics on an encounter form for those clinics who
 
would be addressing this reminder.
This reminder is an education type reminder.  It relies on an active
education topic entry representing the Advanced Directives education in
the Education Topics file. 
 
This reminder will be considered "DUE NOW" if there is no patient

• REMINDER FREQUENCY:   99Y
  NO. OF AGE MATCH LINES:   0
  NO. OF AGE NO MATCH LINES:   0