Past Completion Calculations

The Practice Statistical Analysis report, the Past Completion report, and the Exceeds Length of Treatment report all look for patients that are deemed to have gone past their expected treatment time. However, the reports use slightly different methods to determine which patients should be included.

Both the Practice Statistical Analysis and Past Completion reports consider data from all treatment phases, while the Exceeds Length of Treatment report only looks at a patient's current phase. So, the patients included can be different depending on which report you run.

In the Practice Statistical Analysis report and the Past Completion report, ViewPoint looks at all of a patient's treatment phases for an Expected Appliance Removal Date within the selected date range, but either do not have an Actual Appliance Removal Date, or have a removal date that is after the Expected Appliance Removal Date. (You can find these dates on the Findings tab of the patient folder.)

However, the Exceeds Length of Treatment report looks only at the patient's current treatment phase for the missing or past Actual Appliance Removal Date.

For example, let's say you have a patient, "Ann", whose current phase is Active Full Treatment. Ann has several months to go before she reaches the Expected Appliance Removal Date for this phase, so she is not included on your Exceeds Length of Treatment report.  However, if you look back at Ann's Pre-Treatment phase, you would see that the Actual Appliance Removal Date has not yet been entered, and the Expected Appliance Removal Date is in the past. So, the Practice Statistical Analysis and Past Completion reports count Ann as past treatment time.  This discrepancy in the report calculations should alert you to inconsistent data, and help you make the appropriate corrections.

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