Moves for Medicine

We collect "Moves" data to track:

• delays between admission to a ward and actual arrival there
• amount of care provided off ward

How and What to collect

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Purposes of Collecting move data

ER Delays

To assess the time delay from when a patient is first accepted to Medicine Service in ER (emergency room) to when the patient actually arrives in a medicine ward bed.

Off-ward care

To assess how much time an in-service medicine patient spends on off service wards while still under a medicine service physician's care. (we will assess this in one year and see if there is any useful information there).

Legacy Data

• Collection was started September 1, 2007
• Collection of Moves data made tagging of “overflows” in variable slots 3 & 5 at the VIC redundant (Nov 1.07 stopped).

Data Structure

We capture medicine ward patient movements (moves) in L_TmpV2. The data is sent to and stored in TmpV2_1.mdb.