Exceeds Length of Treatment
Run the Exceeds Length
of Treatment report to obtain a list of patients who have gone past the expected appliance removal date, and do not yet
have an actual appliance removal date for their current treatment phase. These patients may have prolonged treatment, or may simply be patients
for whom you have not yet entered the appropriate removal
date.The next appointment procedure (if any) and number of missed appointments are included in the report to help you track down any problems. The
report prints in landscape mode (sideways) to accommodate the many included
fields.
The Practice Statistical Analysis and Past Completion reports consider all of a patient's treatment phases when determining whom to include on the report. The Exceeds Length of Treatment report considers only the patient's current treatment phase. These differences in calculations may cause the reports to have different results. Click here for details...
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. 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 who either do not have an actual appliance removal date at all for that phase, 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 treatment 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 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.
Enter Dates in Patient Folder - For the data on this report to be accurate, you must consistently record the patient's expected and actual removal dates for each treatment phase on the Findings page of the patient folder. See "Add/ Edit Patient Findings" for details.
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Open the Report - ViewPoint main menu > Practice Reports > Patient > Exceeds Length of Treatment.
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Output Options - After selecting the report settings, click Ok to continue to your output choices. See "Manage Record Selection & Output" for details.
Report Title & Header - Whether you view the report on your screen or print it, the report title and run date appear in the header of each report page. If you used subgrouping or other report options, the subgroup description appears just under the report title so you know which criteria was used to generate the results. In addition, the report header can optionally include the exact subgroup criteria used to generate the report, instead of just the subgroup description.
Related Reports - The Practice Statistical Analysis and Past Completion reports also include patients who have gone over their expected treatment time.
