Homeless: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:36, 27 November 2025

"Homeless" is a possible entry for Pre acute living situation field. See Collection of data on homelessness for more info on collection of the concept.

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-A patient's homeless status affects collection of the following fields:
+"Homeless" is a possible entry for [[Pre acute living situation field]]. See [[Collection of data on homelessness]] for more info on collection of the concept.
-* [[Pre acute living situation field]] - has specific entry option for homeless
-* [[Postal_Code_field#Homeless_with_proxy_address]]
-* [[Previous Location field#Direct Admit Scenarios]]
-* [[Dispo field#Homeless patients]]
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-* [[Province]] - That definition doesn't make it clear to me whether the entry should be "NK Not Known / Not available" or "MB" - can we clarify that? [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 00:17, 12 July 2025 (CDT)
- * who should we clarify with, I would think if they have a MB PHIN or are self pay then you would choose MB, if they don't then I would choose Not known [[User:Lkaita|Lisa Kaita]] 21:25, 6 September 2025 (CDT) }}
-We also had an ICD10 diagnosis to capture homelessness ( {{ICD10WithCode|Homelessness}} ), but retired it [[Task Team Meeting - Rolling Agenda and Minutes 2019#ICU Database Task Group Meeting – August 28, 2019 |August 28, 2019 Task meeting]]
-CIHI has [https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/homelessness-tip-for-coders-en.pdf a document] about coding homelessness; link is included here only as supplemental, use the definitions on the wiki rather than these unless we adopt them specifically.
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