Dawn AC Anticoagulation E-Newsletter February 2004

Topics in this Dawn AC E-Newsletter

Final Notice of Special Offers to Customers until 29^th February 2004
Risk of Harm to Patients: Comparison with Computer Aided Practice with Sole Medical Practitioner Practice.
11^th User Group 2003 24^th/25^th November 2003 – Proceedings
Webview Version 1.0
Benchmarking Supplementary Report
Dawn AC Version 6.06 Reminder

Final Notice of Special Offers to Customers until 29^th February 2004

Several products have been reduced in price for existing customers, varying from 15 to 30% depending on the product, for orders received and invoiced by the 29^th February 2004. Please call for further details. Future special offers depend on increased sales numbers, so please try to take advantage of this round of special offers.

Risk of Harm to Patients: Comparison with Computer Aided Practice with Sole Medical Practitioner Practice.

Assuming a patient is tested 12 times a year, the risk of harm to the patient from a sole medical practitioner dose recommendation error is estimated to be one event every seven years. With a computer aided medical practitioner the risk of harm is reduced to one event every 20 years because of the warnings and alerts issued by the computer software e.g. “last dose change failed”.

In addition, if some form of independent checking of the dose instruction occurs with a computer-aided mode of working, the risk of harm to the patient is substantially reduced to one event every 7000 years.

We recommend that all dose instructions produced by Dawn AC should be checked by a competent healthcare professional before instructing a patient. For more information on the background to the above figures, please see the “Impact of Human Error Report” Download at http://www.4s-dawn.com/dawnac under Latest News.

11^th Annual User Group 2003 24^th/25^th November 2003 – Proceedings

The Proceedings of the User Group are now available on our website along with the presentation PowerPoint slides under the Latest News section. Please see http://www.4s-dawn.com/dawnac

Webview Version 1.0

Dawn Webview is now available. This will allow read only access to Dawn AC via a web browser. This would be useful for example for out of hour’s access, GP access, and Ward or Emergency Dept. access. There is a 50% discount for purchases made before the 29^th February 2004.

Benchmarking Supplementary Report

The Benchmarking Supplementary report will be issued the next few weeks to the 55 participants who classified their anticoagulation reasons. This supplementary report will attempt to adjust the % time in ranges for patient mix - age, sex and disease grouping at each participating centre. We will also report on the day-to-day variation in the % INRs in range and the mean INR to show any drift or step change in INR control.

Dawn AC Version 6.06 Reminder

Version 6.06 has now been released. Please see October’s newsletter on our web site for details.

The upgrade is now available at http://www.4s-dawn.com/dawnac for those on Version 6.03 or later. Look under Latest News.

Syd Stewart

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“Dawn AC is an easy to use, adaptable, powerful, and comprehensive PC based Anticoagulation Software System. It covers the complete oral anticoagulation life cycle with Induction and Maintenance Modules “

“Lancet Nov 7th 1998, Multi-centred Randomised Trial using Dawn AC shows computer aided dosage leads to INR control 20 to 30% better than medical experts”