ICU Var 6 - AMA

Legacy info as of 2016-07-01. This data was replaced as part of the 2016 Time and Place changes. See Dispo field for new info

ICU Var 6 is used track patients discharged against medical advice (AMA).

• AMA - patient discharged Against Medical Advice

discharge info

• use the time the patient is reported to have left as discharge date/time; if the bed is held for a while in case the patient returns, do not use the time the bed is released.
• zz/home is used as discharged to

Start Date

2006

Data Structure

See Category:Variable_codes_1_to_6 for details

Legacy Data

items below not used anymore

• S - Study patient. Any patient enrolled in an ICU study. (tag started: July 1999)
  • Primary reason to use this tag was to ID those patients that had more than average blood test done during their ICU admission. A number of patients in clinical trials had agreed to additional lab tests for monitoring. This use to affect the average lab test stats, so we tagged them as "S" and had the option to exclude if study is reason to be an outlier.
    • "S" removed as option in CCMDB.mdb Ttenbergen 11:59, 2 November 2010 (CDT)
• FT - Fast Track cardiac surgery patient @ STB. (Tag start date: Jan 26.07)
  • NOTE 2 MICU beds used for FT April 20, 2010 to January, 2012 due to Cardiac Sciences staff shortage. Trish Ostryzniuk 14:25, 2012 May 30 (CDT)
    • STOP coding FT only in VAR 6- Dec 13.12. Information not coded in STB Electronic Patient Record.Trish Ostryzniuk 11:59, 2012 December 13 (EST)

• P - Pre-booked ICU bed. (tag start date: Mar 1/99 GRACE)
  • there are 274 "P" codes in Var 6 for ICU.
    • last one coded was 1 pt at Grace in Dec 2010.
      • 2 at STB in 2009
      • 2 at STB in 2008
      • 6 at Oaks in 2006
      • 19 at Oaks in 2005,
      • from 1999-2004 mostly Oaks and Grace and 4 VIC tagged during this period.
        • Remove from ICU Var 6 - P code. This is not being reported it. Is has been deactivated from ccmdb.mdb as of Feb 28.14 version that was rolled out.Trish Ostryzniuk 18:06, 2014 February 28 (CST)
• H - Held bed : While patient admitted post procedure in an other ICU. (Tag started at the GRA in 2002. Tag not used much)
  • H - Hold the ICU bed without the body in it. Grace wanted to know how many ICU beds they were holding while patient went for procedures elsewhere.
    • there is a total of six "H" in var 6: 3 for Grace (2002 & 03), 1 for CON (2003), 1 for OAK (2007) and 1 for STB (2008).
      • Remove Var 6 - H code from Var 6 for ICU. Not being reported.Trish Ostryzniuk 18:55, 2014 January 20 Is has been deactivated from ccmdb.mdb as of Feb 28.14 version that was rolled out.(CST)--Trish Ostryzniuk 18:07, 2014 February 28 (CST)