BIPAP/CPAP Task

Task items replaced iTISS as a sampler of specific "nursing workload" items that the medicine program wanted to continue to track. Possible entries for BiPAP/CPAP: (None, Yes)

Done on your ward?

Only mark a task as performed if it was done during a patients stay on your ward. If a task was done prior to patient coming to your ward or after patient is transferred to another ward, it should be marked as none during the stay on your ward.

Patient managed?

If a patient managing there own BiPAP then this should not be marked. However, if it was started during this admission, mark it.

Discussion

Summary: Vic had been collecting patients arriving with CPAP/BIPAP, 
not only new ones. The original instructions here did not exclude 
existing cases. Collectors are concerned that changing the criteria 
will skew data. 

• Trish, prior to this latest edition of the Task we here at the Vic had always understood this to be a "yes" or "no" question. With this new information it will impact on the method of data collection. Do you wish us to change the method of our collection now or as Dr. Roberts stated in the June/08 meeting go back to how you were collecting?TAngell 10:50, 17 November 2008 (CST)
  • Can you further explain your concern? I am not sure what you are getting at in regards to this one?TOstryzniuk 00:46, 19 November 2008 (CST)
    • We had been collecting all patients who were on CPAP/BiPAP on the medicine wards. Not just the new CPAP/BiPAP patients. With this new information in the wiki, I understand that we are now only to collect the patients who have been newly ordered to have CPAP/BiPAP on this admission to the hospital. Will this schew any of the data we have previously collected and impact negatively any future data we collect in the Task?TAngell 09:12, 19 November 2008 (CST)