User Guide (Referrer)
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Save A Child was designed to give medics the tools to quickly and easily create a referral and send it to the appropriate specialist within the Save A Child network. Below is a quick guide to the mobile app, explaining each step.
On the main screen, you have links to the following sections:
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New messages These are new messages from the specialists or the coordinator in response to your referrals. (This button will only appear when there is an incoming message)
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Create New Referral This form will need to be completed in order to provide the specialists with as much information on the case as possible.
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My Cases This is a list of your cases.
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Introduction An introduction to Save A Child.
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Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual (Downloadable pdf for use in conflict settings.
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Videoconferencing
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Help
In the blue header bar, you will find a dropdown menu with links to Settings (for selecting language and activating fingerprint authentication) and the option to log out or quit the app.
Creating a new referral
To create a new referral, you will need to fill in and submit the referral form, providing as much information as possible.
You will be asked to choose whether your referral relates to a specific patient or to a group of patients. Note: Please select Test case if you are submitting a test referral.
The referral form asks for the following:
1. Case details such as your location and the name, age, gender and weight of the patient. (These fields are all optional and can be left blank if you don’t have the information.)
2. The main reason for the referral – to request a diagnosis, confirmation of your assessment, other treatment options/provisions or for more information.
3. Which referral template to use to best describe the condition of your patient, if not the General option.
4. Any files you would like to attach to the case, such as video, photographs, scans, x-rays, medical reports etc.
You then select which type of specialist you would like to refer to. Alternatively, you can submit it for the coordinator who will allocate the case for you.
Once you have submitted the form, you will be notified when the case has been allocated to a specialist. You will also be notified when a specialist responds to your referral.
Colour key:
New referrals are marked in red. (awaiting allocation)
When a referral has been allocated to a specialist, the case is marked in yellow (in progress)
When a specialist has responded to the referral, the case is marked as green (specialist involved).
You can use the arrows at the bottom to return to the main screen.
Viewing cases
The case details are displayed on a screen showing details of the referral, whether it relates to a specific patient or a request for advice (tab 1), and a list of all the messages relating to that case (tab 2).
Your options for responding from the Messages tab are available at the bottom of the screen. You can
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read all messages
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reply
Case and query status
The process of allocating a case to a specialist generates a query in the system.
In an ideal world, a case would require no more than a single query to a specialist, producing a single response. See the screen shot above.
In practice, this simple scenario is not always realised. For example, the Coordinator may allocate a case to a specialist who does not reply, perhaps because he or she is unavailable. In these circumstances, the Coordinator will allocate the case to an alternative specialist. Thus a single case will have generated two queries (i.e. requests or allocations to different specialists).