{"id":631,"date":"2017-08-07T09:56:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/?p=631"},"modified":"2017-08-07T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T09:56:52","slug":"colorectal-suspicion-of-cancer-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Colorectal, Suspicion of Cancer Template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a dictation template to provide a reminder of the information required to complete the referral. The <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fields\u00a0in red<\/span> are mandatory and must be completed on the referral protocol.<\/p>\n<h4>Presenting Complaint<\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Main Presenting Complaint:<\/span><\/strong> [Text &#8211; <em>98 character maximum<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Reason for Referral:<\/span><\/strong> [Text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Health Organisation Performance Scale<\/strong><br \/>\nUsing the following as a guide, please select the most appropriate answer to describe the patients general health:<\/p>\n<p><em>Options<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asymptomatic<\/li>\n<li>Symptomatic but completely ambulatory<\/li>\n<li>Symptomatic, &lt;50% in bed during the day<\/li>\n<li>Symptomatic, &gt;50% in bed, but not bedbound<\/li>\n<li>Bedbound<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Priority:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Urgent Suspicion of Cancer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Onset:<\/strong> [Date]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will the patient accept any site for treatment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Symptoms and Investigations<\/h5>\n<h4>Symptoms<\/h4>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rectal bleeding:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Passage of mucus:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tenesmus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Anal Symptoms:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Change in bowel habit greater than 4 weeks:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Abdominal mass palpable:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rectal lesion palpable:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<li>Not Applicable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If not applicable, please state reason:<\/strong>\u00a0[Text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iron deficiency anaemia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Family history:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please provide details of onset and duration of symptoms:<\/strong> [Text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>For &#8216;Low Risk&#8217; patients, please provide their next review date:<\/strong> [Date]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Investigations<\/h4>\n<p><em>Please indicate if the following have been checked:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>FBC and U&amp;E sent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TFT, CRP, and Faeces Culture sent (diarrhoea only):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent E-GFR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=168\">Suspicion of Colorectal Cancer Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a dictation template to provide a reminder of the information required to complete the referral. The fields\u00a0in red are mandatory and must be completed on the referral protocol. Presenting Complaint Main Presenting Complaint: [Text &#8211; 98 character maximum] Reason for Referral: [Text] World Health Organisation Performance Scale Using the following as a guide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,87],"tags":[37,38,7,36,39],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-templates","category-cancer-templates","tag-abdominal","tag-bowel","tag-cancer","tag-colorectal","tag-rectal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}