About Patient Folders
Folder Home
Patient folders are created to record each episode (treatment or trauma) a patient has, an episode can be a burn, plastic surgery procedure or specialist care by a burns team.
When the patent demographics form has been filled in by clicking Save & Close on the tool bar an option to create a folder box or just save patent demographics will appear.
To create a new IBID folder click on the Burn Injury IBID option.
The folders are stored within each patent record, it will link to the patent demographics, contain the patients IBID episodes and link the patients daily dependency care to the patent record.
The Top field of the folder will have the date automatically entered when the folder is created. Searchable keywords can be free typed in to this field, such as details of the injury or condition.
To the left side of the screen is the navigation bar.
The Action field, creates.
- New IBID Record can be created by clicking on the IBID Record button.
- Daily Dependency Record can be created by clicking on the Daily Dependency button.
The View Field.
- Burns Care Journal with a timeline of events for each case. For further information on Burns Care Journal please see Care Journal.
- IBID Summary a short snapshot of the patents episode from demography to follow up. For further information on IBID Summary please see IBID Summary.
- Validation Errors List a full list of validation errors for each episode. For further information on Validation Errors please see Validation Errors.
Folder Details
located at the bottom of the Navigation bar click on the tab to display folder Details.
- Start date, the date the folder was created.
- Pass Phrase this is a security code or password for services outside the NHS to have access to the information inside the record, such as the fire brigade or police. To reveal the password click unmask.
- Flag for Audit a searchable field for Audit cases.
- Flag for Research a searchable field for Research cases.
- Flag as Duplicate in the event of a duplicate record created for the same patient this tick box will mark one as duplicate. Highlight the duplicate record, then tick the Flag as Duplicate tick box.
- Key Words searchable descriptive keywords for this patent or injury, Get from Description imports the description form the Folder Home.
Once the Patent folder has been created a New IBID Record will need to be created for each injury or episode. for further information please see Creating an IBID Record


