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 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 select the Indicators 'view'.
See more information here |
Custom Queries available here - Clinical > Custom Export |
DIY Analysis Tools available here |
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