Potential benefits of coronary heart disease (CHD) registers
| Use of CHD register | Potential benefits |
|---|---|
| Clinical consultations | Identification of patients for review |
| Breakdown of current pharmaco-management | |
| Detailed and up-to-date profiles of risk factors and lifestyle patterns and changes | |
| Feedback from guidelines on recommended interventions and services | |
| Rapid provision of laboratory test results | |
| Aids provision of stage specific health promotion | |
| Integrated links to guidelines and care protocols | |
| Improved communication between sectors and health professional groups | |
| Scheduling of referral appointments at linked external sites | |
| Promotion of access to under-used services | |
| Service operations | Generation of intelligence to inform local commissioning decisions |
| Targeting of services and resources to vulnerable groups and localities | |
| Epidemiology and audit | Real time monitoring and comparisons of: |
| • treatments and services | |
| • regional/local incidence and prevalence of CHD | |
| • high risk groups or cohorts | |
| • local disease clusters and burden of CHD | |
| • impact of treatment and service provision against evidence and local targets |