Dental Care:

This refers to the regularity of previous dental treatment and professional visits. Your selection of the choices offered should be the one that best describes how often the patient presents for exams and treatment. Choose "Emergency" if the patient is not seen on a regular basis other than for emergencies.

Smoking History:

For PreViser™ use, based on current research, a "smoker" is limited to cigarette smoking. Other forms of tobacco could be deleterious but there is insufficient evidence at this time to include them in a Risk Assessment. Therefore, do not include cigar or pipe smoking, chewing tobacco, or other activities in classifying a patient's "Smoking History."

"Former smoker:" This term includes any amount of past smoking. If the patient used to smoke two packs a day but quit, or if the patient has smoked three cigarettes in the past decade, both are considered "former smokers."

Diabetic:

If the patient is diabetic, rate the level of glycemic control as Good, Fair, or Poor. For specific information on these ratings please see the Diabetes Classification page here in the Appendix.

Perio Exam Date:

This refers to the date of the exam, not the date of data entry. Input the date of the exam, in DD/MM/YYYY format. The system will calculate the patient's age for this Risk Assessment based on the Exam Date compared to the patient's birth date.

Note: The exam date must be equal to or earlier than the date when you transmit the Risk Assessment, according to the system’s logic which will not recognise a future date as valid. Therefore, you can enter a future exam date and save the Assessment for later (as Unfinished) but cannot transmit the data for Risk Calculation until that date is current or past.

By default on unfinished assessments, the Exam Date on the Patient Details page list appears as today's date (the date you start the new Risk Assessment).

You can also click the calendar icon next to the date field, which opens the calendar tool in a small popup window, shown below:

If a Patient is over age 89:

Note that PreViser™ software requires the Patient age to be between one and 89 years old to be risk-assessed.

For data protection reasons, PreViser will not permit the transmittal of information for patients age 90 or over. For these patients, you can modify the data entry in order to Finish the risk assessment.

Age is calculated by the difference between the Exam Date and Date of Birth. If you try to Finish a Risk Assessment for a patient age 90 or older, a message will inform you that the patient age must be between 1 and 89 years. You can then Save for Later, go back to the Patient Details page, and temporarily change the Birth year so that the system calculates the patient's age as 89 instead of older. This slight change in age will allow the information to transmit and Finish the report, but will not affect the risk score.

Prepared By:

This name appears in the report heading to indicate who prepared it. By default, this field displays the current Name which appears on the Account Options page. However, you may change that name if you wish, which allows you to permanently indicate which clinician prepared a particular report. This may be useful if you have multiple doctors and hygienists using PreViser™ and you want the reports to show the individual preparer's name. Also, if you acquire a patient or patients' records (by referral or by buying a practice, for example), all the past Risk Assessments are marked with the name of the original person or practice that prepared the report.

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To move on from this page:

Clicking the Previous button from this screen returns to the Patient Details screen.

Clicking the Next button saves all the values you have entered for this Risk Assessment, and loads the next screen for data input.

Note: You can leave some required fields blank at this point if you will be saving the Risk Assessment as Unfinished and completing it later. The system allows you to move among the various components of a Risk Assessment without forcing you to complete all required fields. The system will check and enforce that all required values have been entered when you click “Finish” on the final screen at the point where data is transmitted to PreViser web services for calculation.