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| A postal code is collected for all patients admitted to a hospital within the WRHA. The postal code collected is from the address that a person permanently resides in any province in Canada.
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| The entry [[L_TmpV2]] entry for Postal Code collection will be automatically created for any new patient created. Data is collected for socioeconomic stratification of population by geographic area.
| | 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. |
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| == Collection Instruction ==
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| Enter the postal code in the automatically generated '''PostalCode''' record in the temp table.
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| *'''"Q"'''('''note, that's the last field on the form, not the first!'''): enter the patient's postal code example only: ''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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| === Postal Code 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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| == {{CCMDB Data Integrity Checks}} ==
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| * If reside in Province: MB, then patients need to have a postal code record to be final checked or check box "B" if unable to find on chart.
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| * Unlike other tmp entries, this entry is not checked as part of the pre-send checker.
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| * Postal Codes must be in lowercases, no spaces allowed format should be: example only: "X1X1X1"
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| * code to check that postal codes are of the right letter/number format
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| * confirmed 2014-Jul-07 that this check will prevent final-check for tmp when no postal code is entered.
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| * if province MB than postal code must start with "R"
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| * {{Discussion}} anything else for here?
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| == Dates ==
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| Start Date: 2011-12-08 (Start putting in the postal code for new admissions on and after January 1, 2012)
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| End Date: None / Permanent Collection
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| [[Category: L_TmpV2 Data]]
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| [[Category: Data Collection Guide]]
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| [[Category: All Projects ICU & Medicine]]
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