PARview

PARview
„Analysis of PAR scores made easy“
Dr Mark Brickley, MOrth RCS (Edin) MScD BDS PhD
The above screen shot shows a selection of cases by
3 months with his cases - which may indicate why he achieves
Orthodontists Carl Smith and Harold Smith. We can select “Show
superior results. This is a simple example of the analysis available
Statistics”, then sub-classify by practitioner. This will allow direct
in PARview – for example, you could now select Carl Smith’s
comparison between the performances of Carl Smith and Harold
cases and sub-classify by Treatment Modality to find if he had a
Smith. We can see that Harold Smith averages an improvement
weakness in a particular area.
of over 75% – far superior to Carl Smith’s 64% improvement.
In summary PARview is a superb tool to enhance your
It is noticeable that Harold Smith typically takes an additional
understanding of the operation of your practice.
Features
• Enables detailed analysis of treatment outcomes by PAR,
with the help of Nomogram and summary statistics
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of your practice,
practitioners and methods allowing you to work more
efficiently and effectively
• Gives clear performance metrics which can be used in
staff appraisals
Info no. 196/05.2012
• PARview also has the added ability to analyse and
compare treatment time with Bracket choice i.e SelfLigating, Standard Labial Metal, Ceramic and Lingual.
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• Helps you to be prepared for changes to NHS quality
assurance requirements likely to come with phasing out of
PCTs – be in the strongest position to tender for work in
the future
• Use PARview to record the Pre- and Post-Treatment PAR
scores for patients and their IOTN indices, along with
analysis information such as skeletal and incisal classes,
treatment modality, gender, date of birth, practitioner,
practitioner type and practice.
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2) Analysis
Orthodontics is unusual in that the widely used PAR scoring system
provides no robust numerical assessment of treatment quality. The
problem with PAR is that although it is easily applied to a single
Use PARview’s powerful filtering
case it’s really only useful when comparing several cases which
capabilities to select patient cases based
require statistical knowledge. It can be a laborious process to make
on multiple combinations of criteria.
comparisons between cases for the clinician. Increasingly, health
commissioning boards are requiring outcomes data before awarding
PARview also has the added ability to
contracts and the production of such data can be time-consuming
analyse and compare treatment time with
or impossible. PARview software revolutionises use of PAR scores
Bracket choice i.e Self-Ligating, Standard
in clinical practice by making it easy to enter, organise and analyse.
Labial Metal, Ceramic and Lingual.
PARview software allows easy comparison between clinicians and
has built-in report functions that produce outputs suitable for the
commissioning process.
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Once the criteria has been selected,
the tool allows you to look at Statistics,
Nomogram or Filtered List at the press
1) Patient Entry
Patients details can be entered manually or
imported from various practice management
applications en masse. All the scoring for the
patient can then be entered as the PAR score is
being produced. PARview then calculates PAR
for the user. This is an incredibly simple process
and makes a refreshing change from paper
records.
of a button. The Nomogram view allows
you to look at a pictorial representation
of all the data. Easily recognisable in the
Nomogram example are the two cases
which are ‘Worse – No Different’