Once you have entered your 6 month assessment data you will need to lock the record to 6 months to submit it to SSNAP for data analysis. The process of locking signifies that the data have been signed off by the Lead Clinician and are ready for central analysis, this ensures high data quality in SSNAP reports.
To lock a record, view the record in Clinical Case Management and click the ‘Lock’ button at the top.
How to search for the records that are ready to be locked to 6 months
You can search for the records that are ready to be locked to 6 months on the ‘Records ready for assessment’ page.
To view the ‘Records ready for assessment’ page, go to www.strokeaudit.org > Clinical > 6 month assessment > Records ready for assessment.
- Select your team in the dropdown box
- Enter the relevant date range
- Click the ‘See Patient IDs for unlocked records’ button.
The records for which 6 month data has been entered but which have not yet been fully locked to 6 months are listed under the section ‘Cases with complete sections 1-8 and not fully locked’ for your date range .
When to lock the record to 6 months
Once the record has been locked to 6 months, none of the contributing teams will be able to add any more data to the record. If the 6 month assessment provider locks the record to 6 months but the previous team still needs to enter their data, the record will need to be revoked and unlocked back to the previous team. Please email the SSNAP helpdesk (ssnap@kcl.ac.uk) with the patient’s SSNAP ID number to request that the record be unlocked.