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Revision as of 23:58, 2009 March 9
The Survive / Expired / Autopsy field tracks if a patient survived to be discharged, and if not, whether there was an autopsy.
This is one field on the PDA and in CCMDB.mdb. It is two fields (survive/expire) and (autopsy) in Ed's database. It was implemented as a single field to prevent the combination survive/autopsy.
For information on how to code diagnoses only found upon autopsy, see Autopsy follow-up.
Discussion
Is this data reliable?
The following refers to an ongoing discussion, not to a change in collection rules.
As discussed in the Critical Care Review Group, our current collection practice is likely to miss whether a patient had an autopsy. It sounds like, when the patient dies, we do not necessarily go back to their chart to find out if an autopsy happened. If this data is unreliable we should not be collecting it in this way. We will propose dropping this to the steering committee. Do you have any thoughts on this? Ttenbergen 13:40, 16 October 2008 (CDT)
- I have always followed up on the patients who have died to see if an autopsy was ordered. Not sure what other collectors do, but hope this helps the Review group.TAngell 09:21, 19 November 2008 (CST)