Recording Death Administration
The Death Administration form is a quick and easy way to record the details required when a patient dies.
To record death administration:
- With the patient selected and an appropriate Encounter started, enter died in the dynamic search bar.
- From Quick Entry Forms, select Death administration:
- The Death Administration screen displays:
- Complete as appropriate:
- Date of Death - Enter the date of the patient's death
- Description - Defaults to Death, select from the clinical terms available if required
- Date last seen alive - Enter a date if required
- Post mortem information - Defaults to None, select from the list if appropriate
- Employment related - Tick if the death is related to the patient's employment
- Seen after death - Defaults to None, select from the list as appropriate
- Notes (and place of death) - Enter any free text comments appropriate, up to a maximum of 250 characters
- Death certificate completion - Defaults with today's date, update if required
- Certificate signed by:
- If you are signed in as a clinician, this defaults to your details, update if appropriate
- If you are not signed in as a clinician, this defaults to the patients Usual GP, or if there is no active Usual GP, their Registered GP. Update if appropriate
Note - If you are a Vision 3 user and the patient's practice is on Vision 3 release DLM 730 or lower, you can only update the Certificate signed by to Other.- Shared Care Setting - Certificate signed by defaults to Other and cannot be updated
- Select Save .
See Viewing Death Administration for further details.