Clarity - Beacon Flashcards
True/False: An encounter can belong to more than one episode?
True
When is an Oncology Episode created?
When the Oncologist applies a Treatment Plan to a patient an oncology episode is created behind the scenes.
Why is it necessary to use the EPISODE_LINK table to join EPISODES with their related encounters?
Because one encounter can be linked to many episodes and one episode may have many encounters attached to it.
In Oncology, a stage is what?
The numeric representation of the progression of a patient’s cancer. Most, but not all, types of cancer are staged.
Treatment Plans are stored in what master file?
TPL. Treatment plans are linked to the patient through an episode.
Oncology protocols (PRL) are the base for what?
A patient’s treatment plan. Protocols are not patient specific.
In addition to protocols the PRL master file also contains what records?
Smart Set / Order Set and Therapy plan records.
True/False: Treatment Plan Cycles represent a specific ‘course’ of treatment. Cycle lengths and the number of days are the same for every plan.
False. Cycles can vary in length and number of days.
You can manually associate patient encounters and Problems (diagnoses) to an episode in what activity?
Episodes of Care activity
Staging a cancer involves what?
Identifying the location, size and extent of metastasis of the tumor to determine the most appropriate treatment for the patient.
True/False: To stage a patient’s cancer a cancer diagnosis must be added to the Problem List?
True
‘T’, ‘N’, and ‘M’ stand for what when staging a cancer?
T = Primary Tumor size in mm N = How involved are the nearby lymph nodes M = Distant metastasis
What action starts the Treatment Day?
Releasing orders
True/False: A Treatment Day equals a Calendar Day
False. In the Inpatient setting a planned treatment day can span more than one calendar days. You ‘complete’ a day you are really completing the planned treatment.
What actions advance the plan?
Completing a Day
Cancelling
Deferring
Marking that treatment was given somewhere else
A treatment plan order (OTP) record is also known as…
an Order Template Record
A treatment plan order is a container for…
A single medication that will be administered,
or a single procedure that will be performed,
on a given day of treatment.
Describe the difference between an OTP record and an ORD record.
Order template records provide the treatment plan context from which an order is generated. Order template records are ‘place-holders’.
Orders can be deleted from the treatment plan at any of four levels. They are…
Individual Orders (allows propagation)
Order category (allows propagation)
Treatment day
Treatment Cycle
True/False: You can delete orders that are signed.
True. You cannot delete orders that have been released. Those must be discontinued.
True/False: Treatment days and Treatment cycles can exist on their own, without any orders.
True. It is best practice to delete the entire day or cycle if you are going to remove all the orders from it.
True/False: When you change an order and click Accept you are prompted to propagate your change to other instances of the same order.
True
What activity would you use to change a chemotherapy dose by a percentage?
Dose Modification. It can be a percentage of either the original dose or the current dose.
OTP Master File holds…
Patient Order Templates, each a container, holding a single medication that will be administered, or a single procedure that will be performed, on a given day of treatment.