The Clinical Audit System (CAS) is a registry of patients with rheumatic diseases living in Scotland. The database will collect data with the aim of improving treatment and patient services provided by the managed clinical network.
The Clinical Audit System aims to provide invaluable information with which to negotiate improvements in rheumatology services, which will in turn lead to improvements in patient care. This data is essential for healthcare planning and involves identifying patient numbers, and treatment requirements particularly with regard to specialist investigations and medication. Any data used for these purposes will be presented as anonymous group-reports and cannot therefore be traced back to individual patients.
CAS collects information on patients including their diagnosis, treatment centre, date of birth, CHI/Hospital number, name and other therapies, access to recommended investigations and treatments.
A leaflet providing further information can be found here.
The SPARN instance can be found on the Clinical Audit System website
Documentation:
- Minimum data collection form – to collected for all patients
- Follow up data form – to be collected for JIA patients only
For more information or training on the Clinical Audit System please contact
Callum Desmond Shaw, Data Analyst – callumdesmond.shaw@nhs.scot