| DESCRIPTION | This report produces two lists: most frequent diagnoses (ICD) and mostfrequent diagnostic categories. The list entries are ordered with themost frequent encounter diagnosis first. The most frequentdiagnosis categories list is based on the ICD diagnostic category relatedto each diagnosis in the frequent diagnosis list. The report can be generated using a number of different selectioncriteria. The selection criteria are: Facility - select the facilities encounters to include in the report. Primary Diagnoses only or All Diagnoses - if primary is selected then only primary diagnosis associated with an encounter will be included in the report. All diagnosis will include Primary and secondary diagnoses associated with an encounter. Encounter Date Range - only encounters that fall within the specified date range will be used to generate the report. Number of most frequent diagnoses - this will determine how many diagnoses and diagnoses categories will be listed on the report. For example, if 20 was input for this criteria, the report would list up to 20 of the most frequent diagnoses found associated with encounters. The diagnoses are ranked from most frequent to least frequent. The same is true for diagnostic categories. If the encounters contained less than 20 different diagnoses, then the report would list all the different diagnoses that were found. The remaining criteria are optional for singling out diagnosis entriesbased on other encounter or patient data. The user can accept the default"other" encounter/patient criteria which is all VA Clinic encounters(Service Category of "A" or "I") for all patients. Other encounter/patient report selection criteria: Service Category - only encounters with the specified service category or categories will be used to generate the report. This defaults to "AI" for Ambulatory encounters and encounters at a clinic where the patient had an inpatient status. Clinic Stop Code - only encounters with the specified list of clinic stop codes will be used to generate the report. Provider criteria can specify All Providers, Primary Providers, Selected Providers, or Selected Provider Classes. Providers - only encounters, where one of the encounter providers is the same as one of the providers selected, will be used to generate the report. Primary Providers - only encounters, where one of the encounter providers is designated as a Primary provider, will be used to generate the report. Provider class - only encounters, where one of the encounter providers has the same provider class as one of the providers classes selected, will be used to generate the report. Patient Date of Birth Range - only encounters, where the patient's date of birth falls in the specified range, will be used to generate the report. Patient Sex - only encounters, where the patient's sex matches the specified sex, will be used to generate the report. To include all encounters, ignoring all defaults for the other criteria,the user may specify "A" for All Encounters at the Other criteria prompt. |