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| The entry TmpV2 entry for Postal Code collection will be automatically created for any new patient created as of 2011-12-08. It needs to be filled in for any patient.
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| *Start putting in the postal code for new admissions on and after January 1, 2012.
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| *'''Project: PostalCode'''
| | This article contained the information how to code postal code until it was moved to a new field. See history of article for 2016-07-25 for how it used to be coded. See [[Postal Code field]] for how it's coded now. |
| *'''Item: Postal Code'''
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| *'''"Q"'''('''note, that's the last field on the form, not the first!'''): enter the patient's postal code ''X1X1X1'', ie no space
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| **Use Upper Case letters in the postal code with no space between please.
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| **When the postal code is not available, tick off the "B" and leave the space for postal code blank
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| == Special Cases ==
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| === Homeless with proxy address ===
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| If you have a homeless person admitted who lists their address as Siloam Mission or the Salvation Army/Booth's Place, use their postal code as provided.
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| === Institutionalized patients ===
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| For patients who live in care homes, use the institution's postal code.
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| === Inmates ===
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| For inmates such as from Stoney Mountain or Headingley use the institution's postal code.
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| === PC not available ===
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| If a postal code is unavailable for a patient, tick off the "B" and leave the space for postal code blank. e.g.:
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| * John/Jane Doe
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| * out-of-country patient
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| * chart doesn't have postal code
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| We will see how many postal codes we miss by doing it that way and then decide if we need to go further in our efforts to get complete postal code info on all patients. For example, we may end up providing a list of postal codes for nursing homes to fill in when it's known the patient is a nursing home resident.
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| We will review about the end of January how data is looking. Booked for Feb 3[[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 15:33, 6 January 2012 (CST)
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| == Part of [[Minimal Data Set]]? ==
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| Right now postal codes have to be entered for all patients before any patients can be sent, ie. even for patients not being sent today. This is because the initial plan for this data was to help identify patients at risk of overstay, and to use this in patient care. Getting the data later would have done no good there. However, we will not now use the data for this purpose.
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| {{discussion}}
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| * do we still need to keep postal code as minimal dataset data? [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 16:10, 18 January 2012 (CST)
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| == Uses for the data ==
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| With the overstay project not needing this data now our main reason for collecting it is gone. This is still interesting data,but for the most part we want to collect because we actually use data, not just ebcause it's interesting. So, I propose we take to the steering committee whether we should continue to collect this. On this topic, email from Julie:
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| "In the past and until now, Randy Martens is interested on the critical care population by geographic area and that is possible to do by having the patient's postal code. As a matter of fact, he thought we have that data before so he can do his postal code analysis. I am sure Randy would like the postal code data to be collected for the critical care database."
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| {{discussion}}
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| * Trish, can you confirm if the continued collection of this data is going on the next steering agenda? [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 16:13, 18 January 2012 (CST)
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| [[Category: L_TmpV2 Data]]
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| [[Category: Data Collection Guide]]
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