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* '''Special case: Pts in ICU for procedures only''': as per [[Bed borrow]] exclude patients brought into ICUs for procedures only; these would likely not show up in the Cognos reports because the service does not change to ICU for them
* '''Special case: Pts in ICU for procedures only''': as per [[Bed borrow]] exclude patients brought into ICUs for procedures only; these would likely not show up in the Cognos reports because the service does not change to ICU for them


== Reporting ==
== Entry of Admission Date to Critical Care Service and  Reporting ==
The ICU admission date time to be used to calculate [[Length of Stay (ICU Report)]]  is the date and time the Critical Care Service takes over the patient which can be the arrival date time to the unit or boarding location.
Since the definition varies from site and unit, for the Statistician to get the correct admission date time to the ICU which is to be used to calculate [[Length of Stay (ICU Report)]], the admission start date and time must be entered in the  [[Service Tmp entry]] as its  first service entry  '''Start date and time'''. It would be hard to get the date and time information to the first Boarding Loc because the first physical location may not be the unit but just a boarding location and by definition does  not necessarily imply that the patient is already being taken over by the ICU service. Neither getting the correct admission date time to the succeeding boarding location which can also be a boarding location.  


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