List of attributes for patient lists

smartlists, smart lists

From the smartlist editor, you can select and enter different attributes for a patient list Also known as smartlists or smart lists. Patient lists show you a list of patients who meet a set of criteria. For example, patients in ward 17..

Attributes change:

  • What Nervecentre searches

    For example, if you select 'Current ED/Inpatients' from Constrain to, Nervecentre checks if any current inpatients meet the criteria.

  • How Nervecentre displays the results

    For example, if you select 'Length of Stay Descending' from Sort by, Nervecentre orders patients by the length of their stay. The patient with the longest stay at the top and the patient with the shortest stay at the bottom.

The available attributes and their options are listed below.

Select an option from Constrain to to change the patients Nervecentre checks meet the criteria.

For example, if you select 'Current ED/Inpatients', Nervecentre checks if any current inpatients meet the criteria.

Current ED/Inpatients

Patients with a current ED visit or inpatient visit.

Visited in Last 7 Days:

Patients who have been in the hospital within the last 7 days. Not current patients.

Appointment Next 7 Days

Patients with a booked appointment within next 7 days.

Open Intervention

Patients with open interventions.

Preadmit +/- 7 Days

Patients who have a preadmission in the next 7 days and patients who had a preadmission in the last 7 days that has not been used.

Visited in Last 2 Days

Patients who have been in the hospital within the last 2 days. Not current patients.

Select an option from Access to choose who can view the patient list. Access to a patient list also depends on your permissions.

Private

A private patient list is visible only to the person who created it.

Shared

A shared patient list is visible to all users.

Shared/Referrals

The patient list is visible to all users. Users with the correct permissions can manually add patients to the patient list.

Restricted

Patient lists restricted to a pool of users driven by user permissions, for example, safeguarding.

Administrative

The patient list is only visible in the admin pages.

Outlier Definition

Outlier lists are used to determine if a patient is an outlier, and are not intended as user-facing lists. These lists define what outlier means in other parts of Nervecentre.

For example, you can create a patient list that returns a list of cardiology patients on a gastroenterology ward. You set the access to 'Outlier Definition'.

  • When a user views the gastroenterology ward from  Bed Management, they can see the number of outliers on that ward. In this case, the number of cardiology patients on the ward.

  • You have a patient tag with the control 'Outlier'

    When a cardiology patient is transferred to the gastroentrology ward, Nervecentre gives them the outlier patient tag.

  • You create another patient list, and set 'Outlier' to true

    When a user views this new patient list, they see all patients returned by outlier lists. This includes cardiology patients on a gastroenterology ward.

    Read more about the criteria 'Outlier'

The patient list is only visible in the admin pages.

A query returns a list of patients. Select an option from Sort by to choose the default sort order for the list.

Users can view the list in a different order by selecting a column header. When sorting alphabetically, ascending means A>Z with numbers first and descending means Z>A with numbers coming last.

Ward, Bay, Bed Ascending

Patients in each ward are listed together, for example, patients in Ward 1 are together and followed by patients in Ward 2.

Within each ward the patients are listed alphabetically according to the name of their bed, regardless of whether the bed name is a number, a bay-bed number, for example, 1-2, or an actual name.

Choose this option if the list contains multiple wards.

Ward, Bay, Bed Descending

The reverse of the above.

Bay, Bed Ascending

As the first option, but the ward is not considered. For example, bed 1-2 on Ward 1 is listed immediately after bed 1-1 on Ward 2.

Bay, Bed Descending

The reverse of the above.

Bed Inventory Ascending

The bed inventory provides the option to sort the beds in each ward, numbering them 1-X. Choose this option to show the patient list according to the sort order specified in the bed inventory.

Bed Inventory Descending

The reverse of the above.

Length of Stay Descending

Patients in the list are ordered with the patient with the longest stay at the top and the patient with the shortest stay at the bottom.

Select a clinical note profile. When a user views this patient list, this clinical note profile is automatically selected.

For example, you might want the patient list 'ED All Adults' to always open with the clinical note profile 'ED Dashboard'.

Read more about clinical note profiles

Sometimes Nervecentre goes offline, for example, due to network issues. When Nervecentre comes back online, Nervecentre needs to make the patient lists active again.

Select a priority. The priority determines the order that Nervecentre makes patient lists active again. A high priority patient list is made active before a normal priority list.