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* This D/C treatment is now more confusing than ever?Trish do you want us to code D/C pt on a medicine ward or is it just for critical care? Please clarify Thanks shirley 13:37, 2013 July 4 (CDT) {{discussion}}

** We discontinue treatment on patients all the time on Medicine. Vital signs are no longer taken, all meds are stopped except for maybe scopalamine & morphine for comfort measures, no bloodwork is drawn, death is imminent. Why can we not have/use D/C TX? It does not only happen in ICU.--[[User:CMarks|CMarks]] 12:58, 2013 July 31 (CDT)

On H4 I will get pts from MICU that they have D/C TX on and come down to die because of bed shortages, and I also get the strokes come in to H4H that are severe enough to D/C tx on --[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:05, 2013 August 1 (CDT)

* On H4 I will get pts from MICU that they have D/C TX on and come down to die because of bed shortages, and I also get the strokes come in to H4H that are severe enough to D/C tx on --[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:05, 2013 August 1 (CDT)

** You may have patients who are DC, but because we can not get the data consistently in all cases we can not make good use of it, so we decided to stop collecting it altogether. Ttenbergen 12:36, 2013 August 1 (CDT)

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 * This D/C treatment is now more confusing than ever?Trish do you want us to code D/C pt on a medicine ward  or is it just for critical care? Please clarify Thanks shirley 13:37, 2013 July 4 (CDT) {{discussion}}
 ** We discontinue treatment on patients all the time on Medicine. Vital signs are no longer taken, all meds are stopped except for maybe scopalamine & morphine for comfort measures, no bloodwork is drawn, death is imminent. Why can we not have/use D/C TX? It does not only happen in ICU.--[[User:CMarks|CMarks]] 12:58, 2013 July 31 (CDT)
- On H4 I will get pts from MICU that they have D/C TX on and come down to die because of bed shortages, and I also get the strokes come in to H4H that are severe enough to D/C tx on --[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:05, 2013 August 1 (CDT)
+* On H4 I will get pts from MICU that they have D/C TX on and come down to die because of bed shortages, and I also get the strokes come in to H4H that are severe enough to D/C tx on --[[User:PStein|PStein]] 09:05, 2013 August 1 (CDT)
+** You may have patients who are DC, but because we can not get the data consistently in all cases we can not make good use of it, so we decided to stop collecting it altogether. Ttenbergen 12:36, 2013 August 1 (CDT)
 [[Category:Data Collection Guide]]
 [[Category:Registry Data]]