Influenza treated

See also: Influenza tracking

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There is some confusion right now which definition of influenza we will follow. However we are in the middle of flu season and people are off for holidays so we can't make final decisions. So we will (for now)start a second project to use the Influenza in ICD10 definition.

Data Collection Instructions

For any patient who either:

• receives a full course of treatment of tamiflu/oseltamivir or any other anti-influenza agent
• starts a course of Tamiflu but is discharged, dies or is transferred to an area we don't collect on before the full course is finished

Enter the following in tmp:

• Project: Influenza treated
• Item: Influenza treated
• Date: date of treatment start
  • if started before admission and the data is not known, use admission date

• Time, checkbox and comment fields are not used
• email instructions as Influenza tracking Myrna and Trish

Don't use TMP as notes

Please do not enter this TMP until you have actually influenza treated. Use the Notes field on you laptop as a reminder if needed.

Definition is known to be different from ICD10/WHO/CDC etc

The definition of collection for this tmp study is known to be different from definitions used elsewhere. Please use this definition for this tmp study. If the definition is not clear, as usual please ask for confirmation.

This tmp study is unrelated to whether pt was tested

We collect separately (Influenza tracking) whether the patient was tested and what the result was. This tmp is only intended to track that they were treated.

Questions

RE: Transfers to other units or hospitals

• When you say discharged or dies under the above collection instructions do you mean regardless of what unit the gets transfered to? Are we looking at continuous stay in hospitals in winnipeg? For example if the patient is at the Conc and goes to STB do collectors need to follow up on whether the patient got a full course of of tamiflu/oseltamivir or any other anti-influenza agent at STB?
  • • If my patients are transferred out, and the Tamiflu hasn't been discontinued prior to transfer, than I assume they should be continued on Tamiflu. I consider these patients to have received a full treatment.Mlagadi 09:28, 2018 January 11 (CST)
    • Answer from Trish about transfers to other units or hospitals (Jan 15,2018)
      • If the patient is transferred to an area where we don't collect data, then consider this a lost to follow up and patient is considered to be treated. Please in record in the notes section how many days of of tamiflu/oseltamivir or any other anti-influenza agent they recieved.
      • If the patient is transferred to an area where we are collecting data then please attempt to follow up to see if the patient was continued on 5 days or more on an of tamiflu/oseltamivir or any other anti-influenza agent.If less than 5 days they are not considered influenza treated.

• • • One suggestion: If they don't have a full course of antivirals maybe we should be counting the days in our pharm_flow so that we don't use the influenza treated code in the temp studies for those that don't get a full treatment?The way it is set up now you can't tell if they got a full course of antivirals or not. For now we should use the notes section to keep track of number of days on antiviral treatment. GHall 09:36, 2018 January 5 (CST)
      • Could use the tmp field to count the days, too, that way it is available for medicine as well, and the data is all in one place. Ttenbergen 18:20, 2018 January 24 (CST)

Dates

• Start Date: 21 Dec 2017
• End Date: when we figure out how we want to track this, hopefully sometime in January 2018

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none, will work out when finalized

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