Patients Exit From Care

Feb 2011Yves GAKUBA

Introduction

• Different reasons makes patients to exit from care:• Changes their residence,• Transferred to another program,• Tested HIV negative,• Interrupts treatment for any reason,• Cured,• Death.

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What does this imply?

• Patient should be exited from all programs where he/she is being enrolled in;

• To stop all drug orders for that patient;• Delete the patient from the list of currently

followed patients.

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What are the steps to exit a patient from care?

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• Go to the dashboard of the patient you want to exit from care;

• Go to Overview tab;• Find Patient Actions box;• Click on the link Exit Patient from Care;• A popup window appears, fill the form and click

save;• The popup window will close itself and will refresh

the patient’s dashboard; you will remark that the patient’s dashboard has changed to red, drug orders and programs in which the patient is enrolled in, stopped.

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Before the exit of a patient from care, some of the program he/she is enrolled in are not completed.

Click on the link

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Before the exit of a patient from care, some drugs and regimens are marked current and future.

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Fill the form and Click on Save

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After the exit of a patient from care, all programs where the patient is being enrolled are set to completed.

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How can I know patients exited from care?

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Any Statistics on that?

• In the navigation bar, click on Activities;• Go to module’s tab;• Find Exit Patient From Care and click Manage

Listing of Patients Exited from Care;• The list appears, you can export the list in CSV

(Comma-separated values) file or PDF (Portable Document Format).

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Click on Activities

Export the list in different format (Excel or text, PDF)

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Requirements

• OpenMRS version 1.5x

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• MOH-TRAC Portal 0.0.4

Dependancy

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Future perspectives

• Requiring privileges to access the functionalities of the module.

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