Coronavirus (Covid-19) Clinical Audit Update – 27th April 2020

Please be aware the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Clinical Audit has just been updated, the latest version is Version 7, dated 27/4/2020.

The update includes:

Clinical terms 9d44.00 and 65Z..00 are now split between:
- 9d44.00 and 65Z..00 records without an End date entered in the Medical History record, and
- 9d44.00 and 65Z..00 records with an End date entered in the Medical History record.

This allows for patients to be excluded from the COVID-19 list for developing complications if required.

An update to the clinical term 9N38.00 lines, to include those with a free text of ‘COVID-19: Patient self-declared online as extremely vulnerable - requires clinical review’ only
Patients coded with Shielded Patient risks (based on English GPES extract specifications) now has FOR INFORMATION ONLY added to it and the following lines updated:
- Solid organ transplant recipients now included all appropriate patients
- Severe respiratory conditions now excludes inappropriate terms, for example, Flu-like symptoms and Upper and Lower respiratory tract infection