Admit Procedure: Difference between revisions

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Directly related to the Admit Diagnosis: Do not count Transfusion or central LINE as procedure BEFORE admission to your unit, if it did not cause a complication
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**Indeed, the only diagnostic-only procedures that would be included as admit procedures are those that caused a complication that then required treatment --- e.g. a central line placement that led to a perforation -- and even here, this would then really come under the item above of "Was directly, causally related to the admission".
**Indeed, the only diagnostic-only procedures that would be included as admit procedures are those that caused a complication that then required treatment --- e.g. a central line placement that led to a perforation -- and even here, this would then really come under the item above of "Was directly, causally related to the admission".
*A few additional notes on this:
*A few additional notes on this:
**Do NOT include transfusions done before admission as admit procedures unless they caused a complication (e.g. transfusion reaction, CHF)
**'''Do NOT COUNT or INCLUDE BEFORE admission as a procedure unless they caused a complication''':
**Do NOT include central lines (even including vascaths) done before admission as admit procedures unless they caused a complication (e.g. vessel perforation).
***'''transfusions''' (a complication of transfusion would be, for example; transfusion reaction, CHF)
***'''central lines (even vascaths)''', (a complication of line insertion would be, for example; vessel performation)


== Why within 48 hrs? ==
== Why within 48 hrs? ==