From Helena Britt

I here repeat the notes I gave you all when I sent out the previous notification.

During those difficult months I received

* usage data from Kees for patient RFEs, expressed as usage per 1,000 patient years. (thank you Kees)
* data from Daniel for Portugal. (Thank you Daniel)
* We added patient RFE data (as a rate per 1000 encounters) from Australia.
These three data sources have now been added to the Reference tool.
1. Last year at the WICC meeting some people asked they could look at the RFE/Problem data from all the countries, in two forms:
* as a proportion of total usage in the individual chapter
* And as a proportion of usage of all component 1 and 7 rubrics together.
We have added this facility.(see instructions below).
ON the comparative RFE/Problem international table:
the 'RFE/PROBLEM data' from multiple countries is mixed because people did not specify if the data they stn was problems, RFEs or both together. We believe however, that by far the majority of these data include Problems only (not RFEs). The Portuguese data has been added into the international file with the multiple countries compared.
Instruction for this page: Moving from % of chapter, to % of all usage
in the international comparative table if you are looking at the % of chapter data (this is the default when you open the system), and you want to look at % of total rubric usage.....
Hit 'Close" (at the top of the page - middle)
Select 'Settings'
Select 'Options'
Change choice of denominator (sing don arrow), ......Select
Select 'Close' and go and select you rubric again so it takes you back to the comparative data table.

You will see the per cent distribution has changed. If you want to change back to % of chapter, then do the process again - making the other section in the Settings page.

In contrast, the new Netherlands and Australian RFE data are in a separate box on the left hand side of the screen.
If you click on RFE box , a you can pick Aus or Netherlands data to look at RFEs alone.
If you have forgotten when looking at say the Netherlands data, what rate it is, you can always find it on the very bottom left hand corner of your screen. Same applies to the Aus RFE data.


Go and have a look:

The link for the database is http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/fmrc/icpc3dev/