Continuous Stay: Difference between revisions

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  The reason why I don’t know is because my program in Med  is defining the conditions of new admission and if not TRUE will all be categorized as continuous stay (the cut off values are consulted and approved by Dr Roberts). Yours is the other way around, you are defining the continuous stay and if not TRUE will be a new admission.  

Criteria for new admission per hospital:

    2. AMA Patient from prior admission

     3. Patient is transferred to a different hospital, the admission for that hospital ends and the patient becomes a new admission to the second hospital  

        (a) except if reason is lab test and stay in the second hospital <1 day '''[[Bed holds|bec bed is usually put on hold]]''' on the first hospital

     4. Pts with previous encounters and admitted from ER, Home, Outside City or Province or previously discharged to Home, Outside City or Province

    5. Pts with previous encounters and admitted from unit within the hospital but the prior encounter was discharged to Home, Outside City or Province

  Critical Care is different and much simple.  Allan Garland prescribed it based on the paper he did. Link one or more ICU whether same or diff hospitals.  

    Sept 7, 2012 Dr Allan Garland definition if linked ICU

    1. Gap <= 24 hr and (TO=blank or from=blank)

    2. Gap <= 48 hr and previous to = ICU/OR/PACU and from = ICU/OR/PACU

    3. I added the cases discharge to CCU but database has no HSC CCU prior May 1999 **;