Risk Scores

A risk score is the result of a risk script, such as a diabetes risk model, run against a patient’s records for one week. Each script looks at factors like age, diagnoses or recent measurements, and rates each factor. The score is the total, so a higher score means a higher risk.

Scores are computed automatically once a week. You don’t enter them.

Where scores come from

A risk script applies to a patient when:

• it is your organization’s own script, and your organization has accepted the patient;
• your organization uses a shared script from the catalog; or
• the patient subscribed to a shared script themselves.

Each script produces one score per week, Monday to Sunday, once the week is over. The current week has no score until it ends, and a score never changes once it appears. When you open a patient’s scores and some past weeks have not been computed yet, the most recent of them are computed on the spot, so the card may take a moment to load, and a long gap can take a couple of visits to fill in.

The Risk Scores card

The card is in the Monitoring section of an active visit. It covers the last 12 weeks.

• Chart: one line per risk script, with a point for each week.
• Table: one row per week, newest first, and one column per script. Each cell shows the score and its level.

Use the table and chart icon to switch between the two, and the expand icon to open a larger view. A dash means that script has no score for that week. Each line and column is named after its risk script in your organization’s risk script catalog.

Each score is shown with the level its risk script defines for it, such as Low, Moderate or High, marked in that level’s colour. Every script sets its own levels, so the same number can be a different level on two scripts. Where two levels meet (for example Low up to 3 and Moderate from 3), the score takes the higher level. A script that defines no levels shows the bare score.

Who sees what

• Staff need the permission to view risk scores, and your organization’s licence must include it. Without the permission, the card is not shown. Staff see scores from shared scripts and from your own organization’s scripts, never from another organization’s own scripts.
• Patients see their own scores in the patient app, from every script that applies to them, including shared scripts they subscribed to themselves, each labelled with the same level as on the Risk Scores card. The patient app has no screen for choosing scripts; when a patient unsubscribes from a shared script, their past scores from it are kept.