Set up a screening test

Bp VIP.net's Monitoring and Recalls functionality allows doctors to create any screening test that may apply to a patient as part of that patient's care, and store results against the test. A test can be any measurement or observation, conducted at the clinic or externally, including pathology or radiology investigations.

If a test needs to be taken at regular intervals, or a result requires the patient to return for a followup appointment, you can assign a cycle to the test to create a recall. For example, a diabetic patient may require checkups on factors such as blood pressure and blood sugar every quarter, or a travel vaccination may require regular injections over a set period.

See Tests and patient recalls for more information.

Create a screening test

1. Select Setup > Medical > Screening Terms. The Maintain Screening Terms screen will appear.
2. Click New to enable the Details tab.



3. Enter a meaningful Test/Recall name.
4. Complete the fields in the screen.

Field	Description
Automatically add to all patients once criteria are met	Automatically add this test to all patients between the specified Start Age and Finishing Age.
Display in Medical Desktop Recalls List	Show this test in the Recall List, if this preset field has been included in a Medical Desktop.
Start Age	Youngest age at which this test is required or administrable.
Finishing Age	Age at which this test is no longer applicable.
Cycle	Time period after which this test is due to be repeated.
Follow-up	Time period to follow up results if results have not been returned or entered for this test.
Reminder Letter	Reminder letter template to use for patient appointment reminder when next test is due.
Type	Type of test: Measurements — Umbrella type for general tests that aren't investigations and usually measured in the clinic. Lifestyle — Tests related to a patient's general lifestyle rather than a specific condition. Default tests of Body Mass Index (BMI) and Smoking are included with Bp VIP.net. Investigations — Pathology or Radiology investigation. Select the investigation from the field to the right. Immunisations — Immunisation or vaccination. Select the immunisation from the field to the right.
Sex	Intended sex of patient. Optional.
Value Format	A mask for numeric results and the number of decimal places. For example, '999.9' indicates values of only up to 999.9 are permitted, with one decimal place.
Unit (if appl.)	Units of the measurements, if any. Units for tests are descriptive and not used in any calculations.
Range High	Number at which result value should be considered high.
Range Low	Number at which result value should be considered low.

5. Add meaningful result types to this test, including 'No response'.
6. Click OK to save the test.

Add result types to a screening test

After you create a screening test, you can enumerate the results for the test.

1. Select Setup > Medical > Screening Terms to open the Maintain Screening Terms screen. Select the test you want to add result types for and select the Details tab.
2. Click Results to open the Results of screen. Click New.



3. Enter a Result Description. You select a Result Description when entering test results from the Recalls screen or a Medical Desktop.
4. If the result should start a New Cycle for this test for the patient, enter the time period.
5. Select the template to use for the Patient Letter requesting the patient attend an appointment.
6. If an additional letter needs to be sent, for example, to members of a chronic disease management team, select a template from Other Letter.
7. Enter any additional Notes about this result and click OK to save the result type.
8. Repeat to capture as many result types as the test requires. For example, a test may only require 'No response', 'High', and 'Low', and 'Normal', or just 'Normal' and 'Abnormal'.

Last modified: 12 April 2022