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Revision as of 10:15, 2013 May 13

EMIP stands for Emergency Medicine "IN" patient and is used as a location in the Medicine database. It is used to as location for patients who are admitted to VMU at the Victoria General Hospital or the Grace General Hospital and spend their entire hospital admission in the ER (emergency department) while under the care of Medicine Service attending physician.

Serial numbers used

Patients in EMIP have their own serial numbers starting at number 1.

  • At VIC: the OVER patients which used to be together with EMIP serial sequence from May 2007 will no longer continue starting Jan 28, 2013. The serial sequence will be used entirely by EMIP.

Date started at VIC

February 1, 2007

Date started at GRA

November, 2010

Moves related to EMIP

However, a VMU patient may first go to an off service ward from ER and then get moved to a VMU ward, this is tracked by our Moves for Medicine data. Their first move captures the admit time to the off service ward, and their second move captures the time they move to the VMU ward.

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