Definition of a Medicine Program Admission

For Critical Care, see Definition of an ICU_admission

The definition of a "Medicine patient" for the Regional Medicine Database is:

• admitted under a Medicine service attending physician. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the Medicine database.

Collection for medicine patients starts at Accept DtTm ie possibly while in ER.

Inclusion of some pt not attended by Internal Medicine Attendings

Generally we only include pts under Internal Medicine Attendings, but the following are exceptions where we collect even though pt is under other physician:

• all neuro patients (per Dan Roberts, see also HSC Medicine Collection Guide)
• many to D5 under service of nephrology, neurology, oncology (ward being a non-teaching medicine but those services continue to care for their patient unless accepted by Dr Dowhanic or Arneja(who won't handle the HD population))
• At SBGH Nephrology does admit to STB B5 and will on occasion take over a patient when they are transferred off service to 6AS.

Exclude the following

We don't collect the following as medicine patients

• patients at any site admitted under the oncology service
• STB E5 - interventional radiology will admit a patient for an overnight procedure, not following these

there is no minimum stay requirement

There is no minimum stay requirement, if you can identify the admission, definitely include even short stay patients. (there was confusion about excluding short stays in the past)

Special cases

See Category:Overflow for various special cases, and whether they would be included or not.

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• Definition of an ICU admission.