BITK: Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI)

This article includes the questions asked by Bp Premier users during the BeInTheKnow: Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI) session delivered by Best Practice Software on the 01 February 2023.

Is the Bp reporting tool easier than running Pen cat or Polar?

All PIP QI report generation tools will be similar: select a date range or reporting period and generate the standardised PIP QI data set. One advantage of the Bp Premier reporting tool is that it is a free standalone utility for Bp Premier users. You do not need to create new third-party user accounts or install additional software.

Is there any benefit from Data Quality for our patients and our Doctors other than PIP QI reporting?

Maintaining a practice Data Quality Policy and an active patient list will benefit your installation of Bp Premier and your practice overall:

Duplicate and unmarked active patients increase the chance of user error and will populate lists in the software with patients that should not appear.
Other business and clinical analytics software will scan and extract de-identified data from the Bp Premier database, not just the PIP QI program. If an application is looking for diagnoses or conditions, for example, it will look for standardised codes (SNOMED or PYEFINCH in Bp Premier) to recognise and extract data. Such applications will not inspect free text entries because of the enormous number of variations that could exist.
Recording the patient's diagnosis and past history using clinically coded items is also very important for accreditation purposes.

Are Doctors required to manually type in the Cx screen result into the Cx section for that patient to be considered to have had a test, or does BP look for HPV results in investigations?

Cervical screening results must be manually added to the Cervical screening section of the patient record. See Cervical screening for more information.

Can you please confirm the fields in BP that the data is pulled from, i.e. alcohol consumption, is that driven off the exdrinker, light drinker, and social drinker tick boxes or from the # of drinks per day field?

Alcohol:

The fields used for alcohol are obtained from the ‘days per week’ or ‘standard drinks per day’ if populated.

Smoking:

There are two criteria used for smoking:

If the patient is older than 15 and under 30 years old, they are only included if their smoking status was recorded in the past 12 months.
If the patient is 30 years old (or older), they are included if their smoking status was recorded since they turned 30.

Does the BP tool only report on patients that have visited the practice in the last two years, or is it solely driven by the record status, active/inactive/deceased) which is manually changed?

The queries search for all patients that have had a visit in the last two years, under the visit type of:

Surgery
Home
RACF
Locum Service.

Deceased patients are excluded.

Last Updated 03 February 2023.

BeInTheKnow: Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (PIP QI)

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