Creating Auxiliary Reports
Introduction
Clinical Reporting Application (CRA) allows you to create and display Auxiliary reports. An Auxiliary report can be a report or another form of documentation that supplements a clinical report. Examples of Auxiliary reports include: nursing reports, billing reports, and inventory reports.
Auxiliary report templates are created with Design Manager and are associated with report definitions. A single report definition can have any number of associated Auxiliary report templates. Auxiliary reports are distributed in the same manner as a clinical report. For information about distributing Auxiliary reports, see your System Administrator.
- Auxiliary Report Templates
- Displaying an Auxiliary Report
- Deleting Imported Auxiliary Documents
- Factory Default Auxiliary Reports
Prerequisite
The Auxiliary Documents privilege is required to create Auxiliary reports and is assigned to user accounts in the Synapse PACS.
Auxiliary Report Templates
Introduction
You can use Auxiliary Report templates to configure the design and content of an Auxiliary report. Report definitions can have any number of associated Auxiliary report templates. Auxiliary report templates can include all report sections defined for a report definition except a signature block and an Amendment section. Report sections can also be created and designated for use in an Auxiliary report only, excluding it from a clinical report.
For example, a separate Auxiliary report containing the entire procedure inventory can be generated from data imported from the hemodynamic system without having to include it in the clinical report.
Auxiliary report templates do not support workflows and therefore do not include tiers for saving and promoting, and use of AutoSummary routines.
Displaying an Auxiliary Report
Introduction
You can view Auxiliary reports that are available for the current report definition. Auxiliary reports and Clinical reports use the same data. If both types of reports contain the same fields, edits made to common data elements in the Clinical report will affect the Auxiliary report and the other way around. Auxiliary reports are distributed in the same manner as a Clinical report.
Because Auxiliary reports are associated with Clinical reports, they are listed in report directories. You can edit and print an Auxiliary report in the report Preview and distribute it to designated recipients.
Steps
Complete the following steps to view a previously created Auxiliary report by loading a Clinical report and then accessing the associated Auxiliary report.
- In
the report Preview, click Additional Study Reports
to open the Additional Study Reports dialog box containing a list
of Auxiliary report templates that are associated with the current report definition. It has links to other clinical reports associated with a study. - Select one or multiple reports and click Show to add these reports to the report Preview tabs.
- Select a report tab to display the Auxiliary report in the Preview. The associated report section tabs are also displayed in the Workspace.
Results
- All Auxiliary reports have a Preliminary watermark to indicate that they are not for clinical use.
- Auxiliary Reports can include data that was imported from the hemodynamic system for specified report sections. The tabs in the Workspace can be selected to view, add, and edit this data.
Deleting Imported Auxiliary Documents
Introduction
After an Auxiliary document has been imported for a study, it displays on the Additional Study Reports list until it the study is deleted. These documents can be deleted prior to study finalization. However, the Auxiliary reports included with the Synapse factory default report definitions cannot be deleted.
Prerequisites
The Amendment privilege is required to delete an uploaded auxiliary document after the study it is associated with has been finalized. This privilege is configured when the Synapse user accounts are set up.
The following steps describe how to delete an imported Auxiliary document for a study that was deleted.
Steps
- Click Additional Study Reports to display the Additional
Study Reports list.
- Hover over the document to be deleted until the Delete control displays for that document.
- Click Delete to remove the Auxiliary document from the Additional Study Reports list, from the Preview tabs, and from the database.
Factory Default Auxiliary Reports
Introduction
CRA provides the following Auxiliary Report templates, which contain factory default report definitions that are used to capture data for:
- Event Log: This log captures data from a hemodynamic system event log and can be used to display all of the events that are documented during the procedure.
- Cath PCI Registry Report: This report captures all of the required NCDR information for submission to ACC for PCI accreditation.