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Adding location and activity information for Index Patients
Who is this article for?Users who want to learn to add location and activity information for Index Patients.
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In this guide, you'll learn to add location and activity information for index patients during an outpatient encounter for a communicable disease case.
1. Adding location and activity information for Index Patients
1.1. Video
1.2. Steps
- Go to the Location and Activity sub tab to begin documenting the location details.
- Confirm the location and activity is required by selecting Yes.
- Add a new location or activity for the patient by selecting Add.
- Add the location where the index patient was present during possible exposure to the communicable disease.
- Include the date and time that the index patient was present in the location or participated in the activity.
- Enter the length of time that the patient was present. Use the format hour and minute for the hours or minutes the patient spent there.
- Enter the amount of people, excluding the case, who were present.
- Add the setting type, such as indoor or outdoor, noting whether ventilation was available.
- Enter the speech volume of the people present. Indicate whether conversations were low, normal, or loud from the dropdown menu.
- Include the physical distancing of the people present. Indicate from the dropdown menu if they were distanced at all times, most of the time, not at all, or if unknown.
- Indicate whether the index case and the people present were wearing masks.
- Select the Transmission Risk.
- Based on the provided information, indicate the transmission risk level for the index case. For example, using the table, no face covering but outdoors and ventilated can indicate a low risk. Select Low on the table for these sections, then close the table.
- The transmission risk has been added automatically from the selection you chose.
- Click Save.
- Click Analyze after making all entries for the index case.
