Free two-minute CODE RED quiz
Would you spot the change and choose the safe route?
Seven decisions on urgency, functional red flags, escalation, handover and documentation. No email needed. Your result and every explanation appear immediately.
Every CODE RED answer explained
These decisions test process, not remote diagnosis. The safer route is built from the clinical picture, the consequence of delay, the limits of the assessment and the clinic's approved local pathway.
A post-treatment finding is mild, stable, fully assessed and follows the expected course. Which provisional category fits best?
Expected response, with clear advice and a review trigger
An expected response still needs an assessment, advice and a clear trigger for review. The category can change if the clinical picture changes.
Which finding should override a reassuring treatment-site photograph and move the case to an urgent route?
New visual disturbance
A new functional visual symptom can be time critical. Function and potential consequence override a quiet external appearance.
A potentially high-consequence case cannot be assessed safely by message or photograph. What is the safest reasoning step?
Use the route that can assess the patient safely
When delay could matter, an incomplete remote assessment is a reason to arrange safer assessment, not a reason to wait.
What belongs in the assessment part of an urgent clinical handover?
Symptoms, observed findings, trend, red flags, uncertainty and response to action
The receiving clinician needs the clinical picture, chronology and uncertainty, not an unsupported conclusion.
Which statement correctly separates the clinical record from the incident report?
The clinical record supports care; the incident report supports governance and learning
The two records have different purposes. Governance review must not rewrite or replace the contemporaneous patient-care chronology.
What makes delegation closed loop during an urgent response?
A named task, a named person and confirmation that it has been received
Naming the task and owner, then confirming receipt, reduces missed actions and diffusion of responsibility.
What is the correct boundary for CODE RED learning?
It supports recognition, first response, escalation, handover and documentation within competence
CODE RED strengthens clinical reasoning and escalation. It does not grant competence, prescribing authority or a treatment-specific protocol.
Continue with the free CODE RED Readiness Course, then explore the full CODE RED programme for complication-specific cases, handover, documentation and clinic rehearsal.