QUEST BROWSER
User Defined Queries
Quest
Libraries Homepage
Quest Browser is a unique audit tool
for use in General Practice.
This
screenshot shows the opening page of Quest Browser, which acts as the
'go-between' for your clinical system, by storing queries and responses.
Libraries of
queries (that can be run on any clinical system) are stored on this website. You
can download any or all libraries whenever you wish.
Once
you have downloaded them, you can issue the queries onto floppy disk, and load
them into your clinical system's MIQUEST interpreter.
When
your system has run the queries, you can output the answers (called 'responses')
onto a floppy disk (usually the same one you used to issue the queries). You
then import the responses into Quest Browser.
Quest
Browser stores the responses to view whenever you wish. In particular, when
you click on the response files, Quest Browser displays them in a unique
fashion, allowing you to see charts as well as reports and totals.
Embedded
in the query sets there may be a reporting object. This might be a
spreadsheet, or a map or any other display. This is the preferred way of
viewing this particular set of responses. Right Click on the audit title in the
responses list to see the object(s). Click on the object name to start the
object. In the screenshot below, there is an EXCEL object, which reads the
MIQUEST RESPONSES and displays the output in the desired format.
The
results print out like this.....
USER-DEFINED QUERIES
This latest development allows users of version 2.1.13 or
later to edit queries for their own purposes. You
simply fill in the templates provided, and Quest Browser generates the correct
query set(s) for you to use just as if you had downloaded them! You
CANNOT create invalid or meaningless queries.
Within each set you can specify a variety of search options.
This example below lets you pick the ready-made DIABETES
set and re-define the report content. You can choose WHAT
TO PRINT, and WHICH MISSING DATA to
identify, and HOW FAR BACK to check.
As you scroll up and down the query lines, a description
appears identifying what each line does in the query. It is easy to see in the
example above just how simple this mechanism is.... you
just 'point and shoot' to pick your options.
There are several 'shell' sets to choose from, including:
| 1. Download your chosen Template - it will
appear in the libraries tree under Query Templates like the one shown
below. In this particular template the selection of CHD patients is
pre-defined, and you are allowed to choose which MISSING characteristics
to identify, and the time span. |
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| 2. Create a working copy of the template (you
never use the original) by right clicking on the set name and selecting
Copy Template Set. |
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| 3. This will generate a copy in the User
Defined Queries section that you can edit. You are prompted to enter a
title for the new set. In this example we intend to search for CHD
patients with no cholesterol recording in the last year, so a suitable
title might be 'CHD Plus Audit for Cholesterol NOT Recorded in last
year" |
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| 4. A new set is generated in the User Defined
Queries section ready for you to edit. To edit the query (it has a
pad&pencil icon) right-click and choose edit. |
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| 5. The editor appears, and you can select the
lines you wish to change. All selections are made from pick-lists. In this
case we will select cholesterol in the last year. |
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| 6. Select custom choices for picklist (you
can choose one or several characteristics) |
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| 7. and then choose the date range |
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| 8. Finally, rename the query to something
appropriate |
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| You may now issue the query set whenever you
wish. You may create as many copies of the original template as you wish,
or edit or delete the copies. |
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