RELEASE NOTES - CCPS VERSION 2000/06

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		SOP Bulletin No. 36

13 June 2000

Version 2000/06 of the Medical Knowledge Base for CCPS was released into production today.  This Bulletin covers operational aspects of the amended SOPs that this version of CCPS incorporates.  The Bulletin also details changes to some existing rulebases and supporting documents and has a couple of tips for using the CCPS Research Library.

New SOPs incorporated into CCPS	Nil
SOP amendments incorporated into CCPS	Gout Plantar fasciitis
Enhancements of CCPS rulebases and supporting documents	Depressive disorder Ischaemic heart disease Osteoarthrosis
Did you know?	Using the CCPS Research Library

New SOPs incorporated into CCPS

Nil

SOP amendments incorporated into CCPS

Gout

• The main change to this SOP is the inclusion of alcohol consumption as causal and aggravating factors.
• The factor re a specified list of diseases is dealt with in CCPS as 2 contentions – one contention deals with active systemic leukaemia, the other deals with the remaining diseases from the list.  This structure has been adopted to enable links to be established with the appropriate leukaemia SOPs.
• For information about the SOP see SOP Bulletin No. 34, 27 March 2000.

Plantar fasciitis

• Trauma and running are the above line contentions for this condition.  There are specific questionnaires available to assist in obtaining information on these contentions.
• For information about the SOP see SOP Bulletin No. 32, 2 February 2000.

Enhancements of CCPS rulebases and commentary

Depressive disorder

• A problem with the POW contention in eligible service only cases has been fixed.

Ischaemic heart disease

• Reasons paragraphs that used the abbreviation "SOP" now also include the expansion of this acronym.

Osteoarthrosis

• A minor typing error has been corrected in the Claimant Report - Continuous Heavy Physical Activity - Osteoarthrosis [CR9045]

Did you know?

Using the CCPS Research Library

• Holding down the shift key when you click on a link or a Hotword will cause the document or text to open as a window rather than a 'pop-up'.  This is useful if you want to copy the information.
• If you want to retain the formatting when copying information in the Research Library eg a questionnaire with check boxes, highlight the text to be copied and, from the Edit menu, select Copy Special.  Make sure the check box for "Copy to the clipboard as plain text" is NOT ticked before clicking on the Copy button.

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