SSNAP Tools
Pre-made, ready to use tools to support quality improvement and service improvement in practice
The resources listed below are general tools that can be used to support QI and service improvement activities and participation in SSNAP
Online Indicators
Feedback and review mechanism that enables you to identify trends in performance and quickly find patients who have not achieved specific acute care processes
- Provides minute-by-minute feedback on key indicators of care quality
- Boxes are colour-coded for every patient to show whether an indicator has been achieved - QI concerns are instantly flagged
- Drill down to see more information about each KI
Use the online indicators tool to:
- Track patient care and QI concerns in real-time
- Encourage regular review of patient data and prospective 'real-time' data entry
- Support data validation
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Custom Queries
Enables clinical users to create your own bespoke exports on measures dictated by you
- Customisable query exports based on specific criteria you require
- Can be used to address important clinical issues for your team
Use the custom queries tool to:
- Identify a specific cohort of patients who did not receive an acute intervention
- Investigate patient outcomes
- Answer casemix queries
- Track data specifically related to your QI project
- Further understand possible causes of low performance
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DIY Root Cause Analysis Tool
This tool provides teams with SSNAP data analysis for case mix and key acute measures within SSNAP reporting
- Enables teams to export their data at regular intervals to investigate patient characteristics, care processes, and outcomes after stroke
- Provides summary tables of key measures
- Provides patient level data, colour coded and organised by KI
- Both acute and post-acute measures are included in this bespoke analysis tool
Use the DIY Analysis tool to:
- Identify where standards are not met
- View SSNAP data between reporting periods and over specific time periods
- Regularly review and evaluate clinical care provision between reporting periods
- Highlight anomalous patient cases
- Improve data quality
- Aid local auditing
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SSNAP Online Indicators available here - Clinical > Patient Records and then selecting the Indicators 'view'.
See more information here |
Custom Queries available here - Clinical > Custom Export |
DIY Analysis Tools available here |
Health Economics Tool for Thrombolysis
This tool illustrates the opportunity to save health and social care costs for your cohort of patients based on the percentage of patients thrombolysed
Use the Thrombolysis Health Economics Tool to:
- Build a business case to support thrombolysis provision and increased acute services
- Highlight cost savings for commisioning thrombolysis services
More information about the Health Economics Tools and full Health Economics report available here
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Health Economics Tool for ESD
This tool illustrates the opportunity to save health and social care costs for your cohort of patients based on the number of patients discharged with ESD care
Use the ESD Health Economics Tool to:
- Build a business case to support ESD
- Measure cost effectiveness of adding ESD services to stroke pathway
More information about the Health Economics Tools and full Health Economics report available here
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Best Practice Tariff (BPT) Tool
This tool allows teams to export their own data, and calculate whether or not each patient is eligible to receive each of the three components of the best practice tariff (revised 1st April 2017)
Use the Best Practice Tariff Tool to:
- Identify individual cases (and corresponding clinical information) where BPT criteria has been achieved or not
- Estimate BPT payments
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| Health Economics Tool for Thrombolysis available here |
Health Economics Tool for ESD available here |
BPT tool available here |