Service/Location field: Difference between revisions

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 == Data Use / Purpose ==
-See [[Site and Location table]] for possible entries.
+This essentially only encodes which [[program]] and [[site]] a record belongs to. It has additional meanings in legacy data, see [[Change from Service Location to Service, Boarding Loc and Transfer Ready DtTm tmp entry]].
-Used to determine the location or services the patient went during a hospital stay.
+Used to categorize/stratify the distribution of patients across [[program]] and [[site]] when reporting summary statistics.
-Used to categorize/stratify the distribution of patients across hospitals and wards/units when reporting summary statistics.
 == Integrity checks ==