MRSA PROGRAM TOOLS
Version 1.0
Patch MMRS*1.0*1
User Manual
January 2010 (Revised July 2010)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of Enterprise Development (OED)
Field Development
Revision History
Date / Description / AuthorJuly 2010 / Updated for Patch MMRS*1.0*1. Major changes:
- Figure 2 – Print MRSA IPEC Admission Report, Table 3 – Data Points: MRSA IPEC Admission Report,Figure 4 – MRSA IPEC Discharge/Transmission Report, and Table 6 – Data Points: MRSA IPEC Discharge/Transmission Reportupdated to show/explain asterisk (*) before patient name, indicating patient was indicated for nasal screen upon admission to unit, based on site’s business rules.
- Hyperlink errors in initial release were fixed. Usual start and end dates for the MRSA IPEC Report were clarified.
- Appendix D, Business Rules for Nares Screening (Examples) was deleted and appendixes following were renumbered.
Levi M. Teitelbaum
January 2010 / Initial Release. MMRS Package 1.0 installs the MRSA Program Tools software / Meredith Ambrose
Levi M. Teitelbaum
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Table of Contents
Revision History
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
ORIENTATION
Text Conventions
Graphic Conventions
Keyboard Conventions
INTRODUCTION
About the MRSA Program Tools Application
Intended Audience
IRM Staff
Laboratory Staff
MRSA Prevention Coordinator
USING MRSA TOOL REPORTS
MRSA Tools Reports Menu
MRSA IPEC Report
Admission Report
Admission Summary Report
Discharge/Transmission Report
Discharge/Transmission Summary Report
Isolation Report (Census List and MDRO History)
Nares Screen Compliance List
APPENDIX A
Troubleshooting
Printing in Landscape
APPENDIX B
Validation of Data Capture
Nares Screening Compliance
Transmission Review
Clinical Culture Assignment Review
Clinical Culture Transmission Review
Transmission Review – CLC Periodic Screening
APPENDIX C
Laboratory Reporting of MRSA Test
APPENDIX D
Schedule TaskMan Tasks (Optional)
Print Isolation Report (Tasked)
Print Nares Screen Compliance List (Tasked)
APPENDIX E
MAS Movements
GLOSSARY
List of Tables
Table 1 – Text Conventions
Table 2 – Graphic Conventions
Table 3 – Data Points: MRSA IPEC Admission Report
Table 4 – Data Points: Prevalence Measures (Facility Wide)
Table 5 – Data Points: Prevalence Measures (Unit Specific)
Table 6 – Data Points: MRSA IPEC Discharge/Transmission Report
Table 7 – Data Points: Transmission Measures (Unit Specific)
Table 8 – Data Points: Census List and MDRO History
Table 9 – Data Points: Nares Screen Compliance List
Table 10 – MAS Movement Types
List of Figures
Figure 1 – Print MRSA IPEC Report
Figure 2 – Print MRSA IPEC Admission Report
Figure 3 – MRSA IPEC Admission Summary Report
Figure 4 – MRSA IPEC Discharge/Transmission Report
Figure 5 – MRSA IPEC Discharge/Transmission Summary Report
Figure 6 – Isolation Report
Figure 7 – Nares Screen Compliance List
Figure 8 – Nares Swab Order List
Figure 9 – Print Isolation Report (Tasked)
Figure 10 – Get MRSA Division IEN
Figure 11 – Get Geographical Location IEN
Figure 12 – Print Isolation Report (Tasked) (Division 1 & Geographical Locations 3 & 5)
Figure 13 – Print Isolation Report (Tasked) (Division 1 & All Geographical Locations)
Figure 14 – Print Nares Screen Compliance List (Tasked)
Figure 15 – Print Nares Swab List (Tasked) (Div 1 & Geographical Locations 3 & 5)
Figure 16 – Print Nares Swab List (Tasked) (Div 1 & All Geographical Locations)
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ORIENTATION
Text Conventions
Throughout this document, the following fonts and other text conventions are used:
Table 1 – Text Conventions
Font / Used for… / Examples:Blue text, underlined / Hyperlink to another document or URL / “For further instructions on using KIDS, please refer to the Kernel Version 8.0 Systems Manual.”
Green text, dotted underlining / Hyperlink within this document / “For instructions on how to set task these reports, see Print Isolation Report (Tasked).”
Arial / Text inside tables / (This table)
Courier New / Menu options / MRSA Tools Parameter Setup
Screen prompts / Want KIDS to INHIBIT LOGONs during the install? YES//
Patch names / MMMS*1.0*1
VistA filenames / XYZ file #798.1
VistA field names / “In the Indicator field, enter the logic that is to be used to determine if the test was positive for the selected MDRO.”
Courier New, bold / User responses to screen prompts / NO
Franklin Gothic Demi / Keyboard keys / < F1 >, < Alt >, < L >, <Tab>, <Enter>
Microsoft Sans Serif / Software Application names / MRSA Program Tools
Report names / Procedures report
Times New Roman / Body text (Normal text) / “There are no changes in the performance of the system once the installation process is complete.”
Times New Roman Italic / Text emphasis / “It is very important…”
National and International Standard names / International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
Document names / MRSA Program Tools User Manual
Graphic Conventions
The following graphic symbols are used throughout this document, usually in a boxed note or the equivalent.
Table 2 – Graphic Conventions
Graphic / Used for…/ Information of particular interest regarding the current subject matter
/ A tip or additional information that may be helpful to you
/ A warning concerning the current subject matter
Keyboard Conventions
- Text centered between arrows represents a keyboard key that should be pressed in order for the system to capture a user response or to move the cursor to another field. <Enter> indicates that the Enter key (or Return key on some keyboards) must be pressed. <Tab>indicates that the Tab key must be pressed.
Example:Press <Tab>to move the cursor to the next field.
Press <Enter>to select the default.
- One, two, or three question marks can be entered at any of the prompts for online help.
? / One question mark displays a brief statement of what information is appropriate for the prompt.
?? / Two question marks provide more help, plus any hidden actions.
??? / Three question marks will provide more detailed help, including a list of possible answers, if appropriate.
- The caret ^ (also called the “up arrow” or circumflex) plus <Enter> can be used to exit the current option.
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INTRODUCTION
About the MRSA Program Tools Application
Manual data collection for the MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) Prevention Initiative is time consuming. The MRSA Program Tools (MRSA-PT)application provides a method to extract data related to MRSA nares screening, clinical cultures, and patient movements within the selected facility. MRSA-PTcontains reports that will extract and consolidate required data for entry into the Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC). Reports can also be generated to display real-time patient specific information, and can be used to identify patients that have a selected multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) and to identify patients who did or did not receive a MRSA nares screen upon admission to the unit.
Intended Audience
IRM Staff
IRM staff is required for:
- Installing MRSA-PT
- Assigning menu and Security Keys
- Adding new divisions to the parameters
- Tasking thePrint Isolation Report (Tasked)
- Tasking the Print Nares Screen Compliance List (Tasked)
Laboratory Staff
It is highly recommended that the Laboratory Information Manager (LIM) and/or Laboratory Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator (ADPAC), and a representative from the Microbiology section (director, supervisor, or technologist) jointly participate in reviewing the parameter set-up for historical MRSA laboratory reporting, as well as the laboratory parameter setup for other multi-drug resistant organisms, as appropriate.
MRSA Prevention Coordinator
The MRSA Prevention Coordinator is required to participate in the parameter set-up due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the information to be retrieved by MRSA-PT. This will facilitate coordination of subsequent site interactions once the actual patch has been installed (i.e., to be responsible for validation of reports).
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USING MRSA TOOL REPORTS
MRSA Tools Reports Menu
After the five options in the MRSA Tools Setup Menuhave been set up (see Installation Manual),the usercan go to the MRSA Tools Reports Menu to select reports to print for the Division and/or Unit. The following are the three options:
MRSA IPEC Report: This option allows the user to print the MRSA IPEC Report. The report can be run for all the locations in a Division or a specific location. The report can be run for either Admission (prevalence measures) or Discharge/Transmission (transmission measures).
Isolation Report (Census List and MDRO History) : This option allows the user to print the Isolation Report for each unit. The Isolation Report includes MDROs selected in the initial setup and the historical time frame to search for the last positive result. If sites utilize Isolation Orders, these will also print on the report. If no Isolation Orders are used at the site then these fields will be excluded from the report.
Nares Screen Compliance List: This option allows the user to print a report to capture real-time patient information on a unit at a specified time to determine if a nares screen was obtained upon admission to the unit. This report allows the unit to determine patients that received (or did not receive) a nares screen upon admission.
MRSA IPEC Report
This report is used to obtain all pertinent information for data entry into the Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC) for Facility-Wide Prevalence Measures and Unit-Specific Prevalence and Transmission Measures. After selecting the report, you will be prompted to run either the Admission Report or Discharge/Transmission Report.
/ Note: The MRSA IPEC Report should be run no earlier than 5 business days after the close of the month. This allows the laboratory to complete testing and enter the results into VistA. This is a suggested timeframe; it will be dependent on the laboratory practices at each facility./ Note: The MRSA IPEC Report should be run monthly to gather the required data for entry into IPEC. The reports are not meant for daily monitoring. Daily monitoring can be conducted using the Isolation Report and Nares Screen ComplianceReport.
The Admission Report uses unit admission dates, while the Discharge Report uses unit discharge dates. For example, if the Admission Report is set to run for the CCU for the month of February 2009, it will display all patients admitted into the CCU during February 2009, regardless of when they were discharged from the unit (or if they still remain on the unit). If the Discharge Report is run for February 2009, it will display all patients that were discharged from the CCU during February 2009, regardless of when they entered the unit. The Discharge report will also display all patients that were still on the unit at the end of February.
The user will be prompted to enter a start date to run the report and an ending date for the report. Reports normally should be run beginning with the first day of the month and ending with the last day of the month.
After setting the date range to run the report, the user will be prompted to enter the Geographical Locations for the report. The report can be run for one unit or all units. Only Geographical Units created using the MRSA Tools Ward Mapping Setupoption can be selected. The report is designed for a 176 column format (landscape) (see AppendixA to see sample Terminal Typelandscape setup).
Figure 1 – Print MRSA IPEC Report
Select MRSA Tools Reports Menu Option: Print MRSA IPEC ReportSelect the Division: MIAMI VAMC
Select one of the following:
A Admission Report
D Discharge/Transmission Report
Run (A)dmission Or (D)ischarge/Transmission Report: Admission Report
Begin with ward admission date: 020109 (FEB 01, 2009)
End with ward admission date: 022809 (FEB 28, 2009)
Do you want to select all locations? NO//
Select Geographical Location: 11AB
Select another Geographical Location:
Do you want to only print the summary report? NO//
This report is designed for a 176 column format (landscape).
DEVICE: HOME// IDM1$PRT LANDSCAPE
/ Important Note: Do not generate a MRSA IPEC Report for any Geographical Unit that is an OBS unit.
Admission Report
The Admission Reportdisplays the listing of patients that have been admitted to the unit for the calendar month. If a patient was admitted to the unit multiple times during the calendar month, then the patient will be displayed for each admission to the unit.
Figure 2– Print MRSA IPEC Admission Report
MRSA IPEC ADMISSION REPORTGEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: 11AB
Report period: Oct 01, 2007 to Oct 31, 2007@24:00
Report printed on: Jan 16, 2009@14:07:26 PAGE: 1
NARES NARES CULTURE
DATE MAS MOVE SCREEN RESULT RESULT MRSA IN
WARD PATIENT SSN ENTERED WARD ADT TYPE 24H 48H 48H PAST YEAR
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11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@09:43 A DIRECT Y
11ABSURG XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@16:11 T INTEWARD TRA Y
11ABMED *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@20:25 A DIRECT Y
11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@23:49 A DIRECT Y
11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@19:57 A DIRECT
11ABMED *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/1/07@11:01 A DIRECT Y
11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/13/07@13:42 A DIRECT Y POS
11ABMED *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/13/07@18:41 A DIRECT Y
11ABSURG XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/20/07@23:14 T INTERWARD TRA Y
11ABMED XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/21/07@14:34 T INTERWARD TRA Y POS POS
11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/23/07@01:19 A DIRECT Y POS
11ABSURG *XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX 10/13/07@13:42 A DIRECT Y
A description of each of the columns appears in Table 3 below.
Table 3 – Data Points: MRSA IPEC Admission Report
Data Point / Displays…WARD / The VistA Ward the patient was admitted/transferred-in to.
PATIENT / Patient’s last name, first name. An asterisk (*) before the patient’s name denotes that the patient was indicated for a nasal screen upon admission to the unit based on the site’s business rules.
SSN / Last 4 digits of the patient’s social security number
DATE ENTERED WARD / Date patient was admitted/transferred-in to the unit
ADT / How the patient entered the unit: Admission or Transfer-In to the unit
MAS MOVE TYPE / Type of admission movement
NARES SCREEN 24H / Y (yes) if the patient received a nares screen within 24 hours of arriving on the unit. Only tests that follow the new MRSA lab standards will be picked up (the test names must be called ‘MRSA SURVL NARES AGAR’ or ‘MRSA SURVL NARES DNA’).Please see the Installation Manualfor more information on setting up the new MRSA lab standards.
NARES RESULT 48H / POS (positive) if the patient’s nares screen or surveillance culturewas positive within 48 hours of admission/transfer-in to the unit. Only tests that follow the new MRSA lab standards will be picked up (for nares screens, the test names must be called ‘MRSA SURVL NARES AGAR’ or ‘MRSA SURVL NARES DNA’; for surveillance cultures they must be called ‘MRSA SURVL OTHER AGAR’ or ‘MRSA SURVL OTHER DNA’). Please see the Installation Manual for more information on setting up the new MRSA lab standards.
CULTURE RESULT 48H / POS (positive) if the patient had a clinical culture and it was positive within 48 hours of admission/transfer-in to the unit. Only cultures that were reported using the new MRSA lab standards will be picked up (the site must report positives cultures using the Etiology ‘STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS METHICILLIN RESISTANT (MRSA)’). Please see the Installation Manual for more information on setting up the new MRSA lab standards.
MRSA IN PAST YEAR / Patient’s MRSA history going back one year prior to admission/transfer-in to the unit until the date/time of admission/transfer-in. It will display a POS, if the patient ever had a positive nares screen, surveillance culture or clinical culture for MRSA in the past year.The program will determine what’s considered a MRSA positive based on the parameter set-up (MRSA Tools Lab Parameter Setup) and national standards for laboratory reporting of MRSA.
Admission Summary Report
This report displays all pertinent information to enter Prevalence Measure data into the Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC). The report displays Facility-Wide and Unit-Specific information.
The report will print a summary report for each unit. If multiple units were printed together, then an additional summary report will print, containing summary data for all the units combined. This combined summary report can be useful to get the Facility-Wide prevalence measures that are needed to be inputted into IPEC (saving the user the task of adding all the individual Facility wide measures together).
Figure 3– MRSA IPEC Admission Summary Report
MRSA IPEC ADMISSION SUMMARY REPORTGeographical Location: 11AB
Report period: Oct 01, 2007 to Oct 31, 2007@24:00
Report printed on: Jan 16, 2009@14:07:26 PAGE: 2
Prevalence Measures (Facility Wide)
1. Number of Admissions to the facility: 31
2. Number of (1) who received MRSA nasal screening upon admission to facility: 28
3. Number of (1) positive for MRSA based on nasal screening upon admission to facility: 5
4. Number of those in (1) positive for MRSA based on clinical cultures upon admission to facility: 0
Prevalence Measures (Unit Specific)
1. Number of admissions (admissions + transfers in) to the unit for the month: 41
2. Number of (1) for whom nasal screening was indicated: 41
3. Number of (2) who received nasal screening upon admission to unit (within 24 hours): 38
4. Number of (1) positive for MRSA based on nasal screening upon admission to unit: 6
5. Number of (1) positive for MRSA based on clinical cultures upon admission to unit: 0
A description of each of the data points appears in Table 4 and Table 5 below.