User Guide

Consult Status

The following table gives the statuses that Consults uses, along with their abbreviation, name, and description:

Abbreviation	Name	Description
a	ACTIVE	Orders that are active or have been accepted by the service for processing.
c	COMPLETE	Orders that require no further action by the ancillary service.
dc	DISCONTINUE	Orders that have been stopped prior to expiration or completion.
p	PENDING	Orders that have been placed but not yet accepted by the service filling the order.
pr	PARTIAL RESULTS	All or part of a consult completion report has been entered, but has not yet been signed.
s	SCHEDULED	The receiving clinic has scheduled an appointment for the patient.
x	CANCELLED	Orders that have been rejected by the ancillary service without being acted on.

The following table gives the actions that Consults uses along with the status after the action is performed:

Consult Actions	Status after Action
CPRS Released Order	PENDING
Discontinued	DISCONTINUED
Incomplete Report	PARTIAL RESULTS
Completed	COMPLETE
Edited/Resubmit	PENDING
Schedule	SCHEDULED
Forwarded	PENDING
Canceled	CANCELLED
Added Comment	No change in status
Received	ACTIVE
Printed	No change in status

This table shows actions that are tracked in Consults V. 3.0. Actions that are new with 3.0 are indicated as well as which Consults menu (update or review) initiates the action. If an order status change can result from the action, the new status is shown.

TRACKED ACTION TYPE	New V.3.0	Update Actions	Review Actions	RELATED OE/RR STATUS	Comment
Added Comment		X	X		Review users can add a comment.
Addendum Added To	X	X			Based on adding a signed and released addendum to a completed note via the Complete/Update or Make Addendum action or through TIU actions.
Cancelled	X	X		CANCELLED	This is used in 3.0 replacing the 2.5 Deny action.
Complete/ Update		X		COMPLETE or PARTIAL RESULTS	Changed title to imply Complete can be chosen multiple times by clinicians entering results. TIU actions can also cause this tracking action. Includes the one-time Administrative Complete.
Disassociate Result	X				Currently done through TIU actions. In the future will be used to remove an incorrectly associated note.
Discontinued		X		DISCONTINUED	No longer includes Denied.
Edit Before Release	Obso-lete			UNRELEASED	Moved unreleased consults to Order Entry in CPRS conversion.
Edit/Resubmitted	X			PENDING	The originating provider can edit and resubmit a consult from either an alert or the Consult Tracking screen. An update user may also use this action.
CPRS Released Order				PENDING	Used in 3.0 to represent a signed/released Consult order from CPRS.
Forwarded From		X		PENDING
Incomplete RPT				PARTIAL RESULTS	Status name has changed from Incomplete RPT. Based on Complete/Update action, and/or TIU actions, if the first consult note is not completed.
New Note Added	X			PARTIAL RESULTS/ COMPLETE	Based on Complete/Update action and/or TIU actions.

Consult Action/Status Overview (Continued)

TRACKED ACTION TYPE	New V.3.0	Update Actions	Review Actions	RELATED OE/RR STATUS	Comment
Printed to					Based on the original order being signed and released, forwarded, and edit/resubmitted. The SF 513 printed at the Service is accomplished with the Consult package hard-coded format. (OE/RR print templates cannot include results.)
Received				ACTIVE
Schedule	X	X		ACTIVE	The Schedule action does not actually schedule an appointment or link to the scheduling package. It does allow a convenient way to annotate a consult after an appointment has been scheduled by some other means.
Service Entered				ACTIVE	Currently unavailable.
Sig Finding Update	X	X			May be used independently from Administrative Complete action from 2.5.
Status Change	X			ACTIVE	Used by TIU when a note is disassociated from a consult and there are no other results associated with the it.
Unknown Action	X			NO STATUS	Used in displays if action is unknown.