13.  THE RENAL PRESERVATION REPORT

A supplemental audit report, referred to as the Renal Preservation Report, is available to you. It provides more detail regarding diabetic kidney disease screening and treatment efforts at your facility.

To print the Renal Preservation Report, begin with a READ statement in Epi Info's ANALYSIS (it is important to do this, even if you had previously read in your dataset, as it "resets" certain variables).

Always start with a new READ command!

At the EPI6>  prompt, type: READ AUDIT07 <ENTER>

Press <F5> if you wish the output to go to the printer, or skip this step if you want it to go to your computer screen only.

At the next EPI6> prompt, type: RUN RENAL07 <ENTER>

The Renal Preservation Report will now be printed (or will appear only on your screen, if you did not push <F5>).

With some networked or newer printers, especially those using USB connections, Epi Info will fail to recognize the printer and no printing will occur, even after pressing <F5> to route output to the printer. If this should occur, use the following sequence of commands to route the report to a text file:

READ AUDIT07.REC
ROUTE filename.TXT    (where filename is any name of 8 characters or less)
RUN RENAL07.PGM

Now exit Epi Info entirely. Go to MS Word, and open the text file (it will be found in the C:\EPI6 folder, generally). Edit the document as necessary to make sure the page breaks occur in the proper places, etc, and then print the document in the usual manner from MS Word.