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~~CAU -~~ Clinical Assessment ~~Unit~~ (~~alias: CDU~~ - ~~clinical decision unit)~~

Clinical Assessment Units are wards to which emergency department decants patients who are are waiting on acquisition of resources (diagnostics and consults) for 24 hrs or more before they are safely returned to community. At some time these were considered part of the ER, but as of 2020-10 they are all Family Medicine. Special collection instructions applied at some point, but now they are simply one of the many units we don't collect on.

~~This unit is part of the~~ '''~~emergency medicine department.~~''' ~~It is a location where patients are harboured who are are waiting on acquisition of resources (diagnostics and consults)~~ for ~~24 hrs or~~ more ~~before they are safely returned to community.~~

=== Site Specific information ===

'''How these are collected differs at the different sites'''. See for more info:

*[[GRA CAU]]

*[[HSC CAU]]

*[[STB CAU]]

~~This is '''not''' considered to be an ''inpatient'' location~~.

==WRHA ER models of care plan article==

[http://home.wrha.mb.ca/improvement/files/models-of-care-emergency-department.pdf WRHA Models of ER Care] article (2017-10-02)

== ~~Collection instructions~~ ==

== Retirement of s_dispo entries ==

~~If a patient is admitted~~ from ~~a CAU~~, ~~code~~ [[~~Previous Location~~]] ~~as one~~ of

We used to collect the CAUs as separate locations from local wards because they used to be managed by the ER, and so could have contained [[EMIP]]s. As of 2021 they are all managed by Family Medicine, and so for our considerations are just another hospital ward where we don't collect, coded as e.g. HSC_Ward.

*HSC - ER (CAU)

*GRA - ER (CAU)

*STB - ER (CAU)

and ~~code [[Previous Service]] as~~ '~~''Emergency Medicine''' (~~as ~~confirmed by Con and Lou)~~

~~=== EMIP ===~~

All *CAU entries for incomplete pts were changed to *ward entries, and the *CAU entries in [[S dispo table]] were retired.

~~In Sept 2017 Con investigated whether any patients in~~ the CAU ~~are ever~~ [[~~EMIP~~]]~~s; she found that there should not be. If any collector comes across an EMIP from one of these locations, please update this~~.

~~== CAU Details ==~~

On discussion with Julie it was decided to keep the s_dispo entries around and not convert them. The loc type is Ward in s_dispo which is enough when reporting - usually being combined as <site> ward.

~~===HSC===~~

~~see [[HSC Community and Clinical Decision Unit (CCDU)]]~~

~~===Grace===~~

*GGH CAU due to ~~open Monday, October 16/17~~

*will have 10 beds

* Manager is ~~Kathy Kwiatkowski (see Grace N3 contact information)~~

~~===STB===~~

~~start date: {{Discussion}}~~

== Related articles ==

[[Category:Overflow]]

[[Category:Admit/Discharge]]

[[Category:Dispo]]

[[Category:CAU]]

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-CAU - Clinical Assessment Unit  (alias: CDU - clinical decision unit)
+Clinical Assessment Units are wards to which emergency department decants patients who are are waiting on acquisition of resources (diagnostics and consults) for 24 hrs or more before they are safely returned to community. At some time these were considered part of the ER, but as of 2020-10 they are all Family Medicine. Special collection instructions applied at some point, but now they are simply one of the many units we don't collect on.
-This unit is part of the '''emergency medicine department.''' It is a location where patients are harboured who are are waiting on acquisition of resources (diagnostics and consults) for 24 hrs or more before they are safely returned to community.
+=== Site Specific information ===
+'''How these are collected differs at the different sites'''. See for more info:
+*[[GRA CAU]]
+*[[HSC CAU]]
+*[[STB CAU]]
-This is '''not''' considered to be an ''inpatient'' location.
+==WRHA ER models of care plan article==
+[http://home.wrha.mb.ca/improvement/files/models-of-care-emergency-department.pdf WRHA Models of ER Care] article (2017-10-02)
-== Collection instructions ==
+== Retirement of s_dispo entries ==
-If a patient is admitted from a CAU, code [[Previous Location]] as one of
+We used to collect the CAUs as separate locations from local wards because they used to be managed by the ER, and so could have contained [[EMIP]]s. As of 2021 they are all managed by Family Medicine, and so for our considerations are just another hospital ward where we don't collect, coded as e.g. HSC_Ward.
-*HSC - ER (CAU)
-*GRA - ER (CAU)
-*STB - ER (CAU)
-and code [[Previous Service]] as '''Emergency Medicine''' (as confirmed by Con and Lou)
-=== EMIP ===
+All *CAU entries for incomplete pts were changed to *ward entries, and the *CAU entries in [[S dispo table]] were retired.
-In Sept 2017 Con investigated whether any patients in the CAU are ever [[EMIP]]s; she found that there should not be. If any collector comes across an EMIP from one of these locations, please update this.
-== CAU Details ==
+On discussion with Julie it was decided to keep the s_dispo entries around and not convert them. The loc type is Ward in s_dispo which is enough when reporting - usually being  combined as <site> ward.
-===HSC===
-see [[HSC Community and Clinical Decision Unit (CCDU)]]
-===Grace===
-{{discussion}}
-*GGH CAU due to open Monday, October 16/17
-*will have 10 beds
-* Manager is Kathy Kwiatkowski (see Grace N3 contact information)
-===STB===
-start date: {{Discussion}}
+== Related articles ==
+{{Related Articles}}
+[[Category:Overflow]]
 [[Category:Admit/Discharge]]
 [[Category:Dispo]]
+[[Category:CAU]]