Visit Admit DtTm field

This field is currently being implemented, please check the instructions and put a discussion for anything that isn't clear. 

The Visit Admit DtTm field contains the first entry in the visit location history in EPR for current visit at your site.

Purpose

The field is used as an identifier of the start of a hospital encounter at your site. The info is use to:

• link together ICU and Ward admissions during the same hospital visit
• uniquely identify patient visits to Manitoba Health when we exchange data with them

Collection Instruction

(in progress. Any collector can continue to rewrite to help make clearer - Thank you!)

For each patient,

• In EPR find Patient name
• go to:
  • Registration
  • Visit Location
  • Location History
    • at the bottom of the page, you will see the specific hospital, and also the date/times in ER.
    • find the earliest date/time for your hospital for the current admission; e.g. VGH-ED-Triage start.
• enter that date into the Visit Admit DtTm field in ccmdb.mdb

Background

Right now you guys collect detailed to/from info in Var1/2. The details are primarily used for linking. Collecting the Hospital Admit DtTm will make that information irrelevant for wards where we don't collect, so we will be able to code "from" for wards where we don't collect just as "HSC Ward"(eg).

Data Use

This data is used to understand Length of Stay and for linking.

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• must be <= Arrive DtTm field

Legacy

This field is part of the 2016 Time and Place changes.

It is being added to simplify the old linking - if we have the hospital admit date and time, we are done linking, none of the previous complex process will be needed any longer.