ADT

The Critical Care and Medicine Database collects the following ADT (Admit Discharge Transfer) information:

	DataElementDescription	FieldDataType	FieldLength	DataElementStartDate	DataElementEndDate
Accept DtTm field	First Service tmp entry DtTm for pts who came from the ER department only	date	not entered	1 July 2016	22 April 2022
Accept DtTm missing field	checkbox is checked/true when no Accept DtTm is documented for a patient who came from from the ER.	boolean	not entered	1 July 2016	22 April 2022
Arrive DtTm field	First non-ER Boarding location date and time, or start of ( Service Location) for legacy records.	date	not entered	1 July 2016	22 April 2022
Dispo DtTm field	Date and time when the patient changed status from what is documented in Service/Location field to Dispo field..	date	not entered	1 July 2016	1 January 2100
Dispo field	The Dispo field contains information about what happens to the patient at the end of their admission.	number	long	1 July 2016	1 January 2100
ER Delay	The ER Delay is the difference between the pre-ER Boarding Loc and first post-ER Boarding Loc, for patients arriving from the ER.	date	n/a	11 July 1988	1 January 2100
Pre acute living situation field	Info about the living situation of the patient prior to the current hospitalization.	number	long integer	1 July 2016	1 January 2100
Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field	The most recent previous inpatient location of patients who were already inpatients elsewhere and who have been under medical care continuously before coming to our unit.	number	long integer	1 July 2016	1 January 2100
Previous Location field	The most recent previous physical location (with #exceptions) of a patient before arriving at the collection location.	number	long integer	1 July 2016	1 January 2100
Previous Service field	The most recent "originating service" which sends the patients to their current service location.	number	long integer	1 July 2016	7 September 2022
TR info status field	Cross-check field that will contain data if Transfer_Ready_DtTm field is empty	string	19	5 May 2016	15 October 2020
Transfer Ready DtTm field	Date and time the intent to discharge a patient to a lower level in the Level of care hierarchy was documented.	date	not entered	1 June 1999	15 October 2020
Visit Admit DtTm field	This field is used only as an identifier to combine data from the same hospitalization and should not be used as a date.	date	not entered	1 January 2003	1 January 2100

See also the following, which aren't really fields but which do encode ADT info:

• Boarding Loc
• Service tmp entry

See Category:Admit/Discharge for related concepts.

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