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Oral Health Surveys are a simple but effective means for dental practices to prompt patients for their feelings on the aesthetics of their smile. Once discussed with patients, these surveys often lead to additional cosmetic treatment.


Oral Health Surveys can be conducted from printed forms or by means of Clinipad, and they integrate seamlessly into the appointment workflow manager.
Oral Health Surveys are available from EXACT v11.3 SP7 onwards.


Oral Health Surveys are enabled by default, which causes the appointment workflow Arrivals screen to pop up with a prompt. See Configuring Oral Health Survey settings if you wish to disable this prompt.

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  • Suitable for all practices, with or without Clinipad, in all countries where EXACT is distributed.
  • No patient signature required.
  • Option for an electronic form on Clinipad and / or a printed form via Presentation Manager.
  • Integrated into the existing appointment workflow manager, with an automated prompt in the Arrivals screen for the Receptionist to issue the Oral Health Survey.
  • Integrated with Clinipad for electronic form completion.
    • A default Oral Health Survey Clinipad template form ships with EXACT (this is customisable).
    • Status of the survey is indicated in a column in the Clinipad Tab, so practitioners can see at a glance whether the patient failed to open the survey, looked at it but did not complete it, or completed it.
  • Dentists monitor Oral Health Surveys from an Oral Health Survey tab in the patient Chart screen.
  • Multiple configuration options, including which questions to ask and disabling Oral Health Survey (it is enabled by default).
  • If required, Dentists can opt to issue an Oral Health Survey themselves from the clinic.
  • Dentists can access past surveys from the Oral Health Surveys tab in the chart.
  • Oral Health Survey settings configuration is by means of the Oral Health Survey tab in the Chart screen.
  • For printing purposes, a default Oral Health Survey Presentation Manager template form ships with EXACT (this is customisable).
  • Direct Marketing permissions question: Optionally include this marketing-related question in Clinipad so that patients who agree can be included in practice marketing campaigns:

    Oral Health Surveys Configuration screen:

    ClinipadPermissionsQuestion

    Clinician Oral Health Survey with patient:

    OHSPermissions-ClinicReview


  • Oral Health Surveys Query for Contact Lists. This makes it possible to target patients who meet vey specific conditions or specific combinations of conditions relating to Oral Health Surveys.

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  • With little effort a practice can generate lucrative further business.
  • With options for both electronic and printed forms, all bases are covered and it is easy to collect Oral Health Survey data.
  • Patients feel reassured when a dentist personally discusses and explains their clinical and cosmetic dentistry options.
  • Patients benefit from the rewards of cosmetic dentistry.
  • Clinipad is a time saver - patient data entered into Clinipad is automatically stored in the EXACT database, so there is no need for a practitioner to transcribe it as for printed forms.


Requirements

  • EXACT version 11.3 SP7 or later.
  • Appointment arrivals workflow needs to be enabled and configured.
  • Electronic completion of surveys requires at least one functional Clinipad, with the Clinipad module.
  • Printed surveys require Presentation Manager.
  • Clinicians who will be Saving and Completing Oral Health Surveys after discussion with the patient must have the appropriate permission set in the Security settings. For example, the role of DENTIST:

    Dentist-SaveComplete


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Eight questions were added in EXACT v12.6. By default these are un-checked so they do not display in the patient survey.

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Contact Lists, Patient Queries for Oral Health Surveys

From EXACT v12.6 it is possible to create finely-tuned Queries and Contact Lists from Oral Health Surveys records.

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  1. Select Administration from the main menu bar (see image below).
  2. In the menu select Contact Lists.
  3. Select Create List to open the Create Contact List window.
  4. Click the Select a Query Template button.

    OHS-ContactLists-01

  5. In the View Query Templates window, select +1 to open the Add Query Template window (see image below).
  6. Type a Description for this Query Template.
  7. Click the button Insert a Patient Selection into the list. to open the Insert Condition window.

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  8. In the Select Condition window, select Oral Health Survey (see image below).
  9. Select OK.

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    The Edit Patient Selection window displays.

    OHS-ContactLists-04

    This has multiple selection options so consider carefully what is required:

    OHS-ContactLists-05

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    From this point you can add further parameers or leave them out by means of the checkboxes.

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  10. When your selectyions are as required, click OK (see image above).

    Your query lists in the Add Query Template window:

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  11. To further fine-tune this template, use the AND / OR to add further queries (see image below).
  12. Click OK.

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  13. In the Create Contact List window, type a Description for the List (see image below).
  14. Add Keywords that relate to this Contact List.
  15. Specify whether this Contact List will be used for appointment booking.
  16. Select OK.

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  17. Click Yes when EXACT confirms how many patients will apply and asks whether to continue:

    OHS-ContactLists-14

    The Contacts will display in the Contact Lists screen.

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If the Clinipad Oral Health Survey checkbox is de-selected (not required) but you do wish to issue it, you can manually override EXACT by selecting the checkbox:

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  1. Open the patient Arrivals screen as normal.

    In this case EXACT shows the ClinipadOral Health Survey as not being due:

    Icon greyed out:

    icon_ClinipadSmileSurveyNotDue

    Checkbox unchecked :

    SmileSurveyLink-forPrinting-unchecked2

  2. Check the checkbox to enable the survey and then proceed as normal

    SmileSurveyLink-forPrinting2

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  1. Select the appointment to mark the patient as Arrived.
  2. The Arrivals screen pops up.
  3. Click the Oral Health Survey link to print the form:

    PatientArrivalsScreen

    (The above screen is for a practice with no Clinipad. A practice with Clinipad would see a Clinipad checkbox below the Oral Health Survey hyperlink)

  4. Issue the form to the patient with appropriate instructions.
  5. When the patient returns the completed form, the data on this form will need to be captured into the EXACT database.

    This is normally achieved by the Dentist creating a New Oral Health Survey by means of the +1 button in the Oral Health Survey tab in the Chart screen, and then checking boxes and transcribing comments to match the printed form while consulting the patient.

    It could also be done by the Receptionist.

    NOTE: If the patient is not present when this electronic version is created, select the Save button at this time and the survey data will be saved so that it can be reviewed the next time the patient comes in for an appointment.

    The new Oral Health Survey displays as a line in the Oral Health Surveys tab, with a Status of Needs Consult:

    SmileSurveyRecordedInTab

    The Clinician double-clicks the Oral Health Survey to open it in consultation with the patient.

    After consultation the Clinician selects the Complete button and the Oral Health Survey has the Status of Complete:

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To add the Oral Health Survey data from a printed, manually completed form into EXACT

Create a New Oral Health Survey by means of the +1 button in the Oral Health Survey tab in the Chart screen, then check boxes and transcribe comments to match the printed form 

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  1. For the appropriate patient, select the Oral Health Surveys tab and then click the +1 button at bottom right as follows:

    SmileSurveysTabInChart2

  2. The Oral Health Survey appears on the EXACT screen:

    SmileSurveyConsult

    The last question in this window relates to direct marketing permissions

  3. Consult with the patient as you complete the form.

    Note the Resolved checkbox for each item. You can check these as a means of managing the "To Do List".

    If you leave items Unresolved, EXACT will warn you when you attempt to Complete the Survey.

    The Save button is a means of saving without Completing.

  4. Check that all items are resolved and then select the Complete button to finalise the Oral Health Survey.

    Completed surveys become read-only medical records, so select the Complete button when you are sure that there are no more changes to be made.
    Note however that there is also the option to Reopen the record.

    If you have any items Unresolved (with un-checked Resolved checkboxes), EXACT will prompt for completion:

    OHS-Complete-popup

    Once you select Yes, the record in the Oral Health Survey tab shows as Complete:

    SmileSurveyRecordedInTab2

  5. View the Survey at any time by double-clicking it in the Oral Health tab.

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    From this window you can optionally Reopen the Survey to edit it.

    Add Provider Notes if required.

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SS-enabled-checkbox Oral Health Surveys Enabled


Disable and Enable Oral Health Survey by means of this checkbox (default is checked (enabled)).

With the Oral Health Survey enabled, an Oral Health Survey section is added to the appointment Arrivals Screen, and the screen will pop up by default.

When processing patient arrivals, Receptionist are prompted to issue the Oral Health Survey questions, depending on patient age and how long ago they last looked at a survey.

With the prompt disabled you will lose the Receptionist prompt in the patient Arrivals screen, so if you're considering disabling it, the recommendation is to leave it enabled and then decide whether to issue the survey on a patient-to-patient basis.

Patients should be required to fill out Oral Health Surveys every...

Set how often the patient should be prompted to update their Oral Health Survey.
The default is 24 months.
Select 0 months to always show the survey when a patient arrives for an appointment.

Only collect Oral Health Surveys for patients over...

Select the minimum age at which a patient should first be asked to complete an Oral Health Survey. The default setting is 18 years.

If the patient is under the minimum age the section will still appear in the arrivals window, but will always be unchecked (unticked) by default and display a message stating that the patient is underage.

Collect Oral Health Surveys before appointments with

Specify whether the Oral Health Survey should be collected only for Dentist appointments, or for all providers.

DentistOrAllProviders

The default setting is for Dentist only. This is recommended in order to ensure that the Dentist can always review the Oral Health Survey and carry out any diagnosis required for the patient concerns.
With this setting, when the patient arrives for their appointment, if they are not due to see the dentist at this appointment or later in the day, then the Oral Health Survey will not be requested at all.

If set for All Providers, the Oral Health Survey will be conducted by the first Provider to see the Patient. It is important in this case to have a practice standard procedure where that first Provider will inform other affected Providers if any issues arose with the Oral Health Survey. This applies especially to co-duty appointments. 

Template to use when printing a paper form

Select a Presentation Manager template to print if there is no Clinipad available, or the practice does not have the Clinipad module. A Presentation Manager 'Oral Health Survey' template ships with EXACT.

You can import this template and edit it to remove any questions that you don't want to ask (the default is all questions asked). You can uncheck (untick) any questions that you don't want to ask. For example if your practice does not offer orthodontics or whitening, you may wish to uncheck just those questions. Alternatively you may want to leave them in to discover how many of your patients would be interested in those services if you were able to offer them.

Ask patient...

checkbox,grey-checked Ask patient on Clinipad if they would like relevant information to be sent to them.

Optionally include this marketing-related question so that patients who agree can be included in marketing campaigns. Their answer options are:

  • Leave blank (this is the default and applies if they ignore the question)
  • Yes
  • No

Select Questions

Customise the Clinipad Oral Health Survey by selecting and de-selecting questions.

ConfigureQuestions

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Configuring a Printable Template

If the practice has no Clinipad module, it is still possible to configure a printable Oral Health Survey by means of Presentation Manager.

Import the Default Oral Health Survey Print Template

  1. Go to the Patients desktop and select any patient.
  2. Select the Create a Patient Document button:

    DocumentButton

  3. (Optional) In the Document details screen, create a Category called Oral Health Survey:

    CreateSScategory

  4. Select the +1 button to open the Create Template screen.
  5. In the Create Template screen,

    SS-opentemplate

    1. Open the Misc category.
    2. Select the Oral Health Survey template.
    3. Select Import Templates button.
    4. In the Open File dialogue, browse in the Letter Templates > Misc folder for Oral Health Survey.pm and select it.
    5. Select the Open button.
  6. This will immediately re-open the Document Details screen, and you'll see Oral Health Survey now listed as the last template on the page. Drag it to the Oral Health Survey folder (if you created one):

    DragSmileAssessment

  7. To customise this template, simply double-click it and it will open in Presentation Manager.

    From here you can edit it as for any MS Word document and Save it back into the Document Details screen.

    At this point you haven't yet told Oral Health Surveys to use this template, so you can optionally create multiple custom templates and store them in the Oral Health Survey folder.

  8. To inform Oral Health Surveys to use a particular template,

    SelectSSprintTemplate

    1. (Any Dentist) Open the Oral Health Surveys tab in the Chart tab.
    2. Select the Spanner button.
    3. In the Oral Health Surveys Configuration, select the Browse button alongside Template to use when printing a paper form.
  9. This opens the Document Templates screen.

    Locate your template (don't double-click) and then select the OK button at the bottom of the screen.

    DocTemplate-selectSmileAssessment

    NOTE: If you double-click the template it will open in Presentation Manager for editing.

    Back in the Oral Health Surveys Configuration you will now see that the template is selected:

    PrintableTemplateSelected

    Now when you create a printable Oral Health Survey, EXACT will automatically print this template.

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Creating a Standard Procedure for Co-duty Appointments

(This is not an EXACT configuration but a business process)

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