Comorbidities

The Comorbidities Tool allows you to generate for any patient a report in relation to any of:

• just one disorder (eg Separation Anxiety of Childhood)

• a chosen family of disorders (eg the Anxiety disorders)

• all disorders in the system (except where “no” appears in the In Comorbidities Report column of the disorder dropdowns)

The Word report is opened – and saved automatically in the patient’s Case folder, with a file name on the pattern Comorbidities_000134 in which 000134 is the patient’s system ID written as six digits.

Each time you generate a comorbidity report the results are appended to the existing document – so always go to the end of the document to find the latest material.

Generating comorbidity outcomes

Open the Comorbidities Tool in one of two ways:

• click Comorbidities summary in the Case Manager

• or press <Ctrl + Shift + T> (think of T-ool)

1. Choose the patient for whom a report is required.

2. Click an option button to select reporting on a Disorder group, a Disorder, or All disorders.

3. Unless reporting All disorders, choose required Disorder group or Disorder.

4. Click the Report button.

Interpreting a Comorbidities summary

The Comorbidities summary has from one to many rows, depending on the choices you make in the Comorbidities Tool. The following notes apply in all cases:

Disorder Group	Disorder	Criteria met?	Qs to do	Notes
Anxiety	Generalised anxiety disorder	yes
Anxiety	Agoraphobia	no	1 of 3
Anxiety	Social anxiety of childhood	no
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ADHD	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	?	2 of 41	Met: 4 Might be met: 1 home: impulsivity
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Criteria met? says whether diagnostic criteria are met or not. Definite outcomes, both positive and negative, are possible even where there are unanswered questions. A ? means that the outcome could go either way, depending on how the Qs to do are completed – so it’s important to answer them.

To find and answer any omitted questions, revisit the interview and select the appropriate Route – you can then use the Route Explorer to jump to each red question mark.