Patient Chart: Incidents Tab

This window displays a chronological list of all incidents entered for the patient. The columns of the Incidents window display the following information:

Item	Information Displayed
Date	Date on which the incident occurred
Incident (Number)	Sequential number of the incident for the year in which the incident occurred.
Nature	Nature of the incident
Body part	Body part affected
Case Number	Case number

What do you want to do?

Filter the list of incidents

To help you find incidents, you can filter the list in three ways:

• To filter by Provider, click the table icon beside Filter by Provider. Search for and select to provider you want, then click OK.

  

• To filter by ICD-9 code, click the table icon beside Filter by ICD-9 Code. Search for and select to ICD-9 code you want, then click OK.

  

• To filter by date, enter a From date and a Thru date. Entering just a From date will show all incidents on or after that date. Entering just a Thru date will show all incidents on or before that date.

You can filter by more than one field at a time.

To remove a filter, highlight the entry in the relevant field, then hit the Delete key on your keyboard.

Create a new incident

1. From the INCIDENTS tab, click the Add button.

2. In the Incident Date field, type the date the incident occurred.

3. Do one of the following:

1. • If the Employee was seen in your department, to create the initial visit record, in the Visit Categoryfield, enter the appropriate visit category code, or click the icon to the right of the field, and select the category from the list

OR

1. • If you do not want to log the initial incident visit, leave Visit Category field blank and click the OK button. This will just create the incident without a visit.

4. Complete the Incident details.

5. Click OKto close the Incident record.

Add or change incident information

1. Highlight the appropriate incident.

2. Click the Change button.

3. Complete or change the desired information.

4. Click OKto close the incident record.

Delete an incident that includes associated visits

You cannot delete an incident record without first deleting the associated visit records. You cannot delete visit records without first deleting the visit results for each visit. These constraints have been built into the software to avoid users mistakenly deleting incidents and/or visits!

To delete an incident that includes one or more visits:

1. From the INCIDENTS tab of the Patient Chart, highlight the incident you want to delete, and click the CHANGE button.

2. On the right side of the [Enter Injury] window, click the Follow Up button. The visits are displayed in the left pane of the [Incident Follow Up] window, and the Activities for the Highlighted Visit are displayed in the right pane.

3. In the left [Follow Up Visits] pane, highlight the first visit.

4. In the right [Activities...] pane, highlight the first activity and click Delete.

5. At the prompt, click Yes.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until all activities have been deleted.

7. Repeat from step 3 until all visits have been deleted.

8. Click Close to return to the [Enter Injury] window, then click OK to return to the INCIDENTS tab of the Patient Chart.

9. Highlight the incident you want to delete and click the Delete button.

10. Click Yes at the prompt.

Delete an incident that has no associated visits

1. Highlight the desired visit.

2. Click the Delete button.

3. ClickYesat the prompt.

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