VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Difference between revisions

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***Thanks Trish,just wasn't sure if I could code the VAP on medicine. As you know, we are still not using ventilators on our tower units.....kidding....but i wasn't sure. Norine and I discussed this patient, and with the criteria, have coded this patient as a CAP not a VAP. Thanks Wendy

==~~June 16, 2008~~==

==Reporting of VAP when patients move units==

*''When the Statistician links admissions in the database between ICU'a & medicine wards in the city, those patient that have VAP in admitting diagnosis are excluded from complication statistics. The patient encounter that had the VAP coded in the '''acquired diagnosis''' slot is the unit that is given credit for the '''complication''' occuring in that unit.'' [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:10, 16 June 2008 (CDT)

When the Statistician links admissions in the database between ICU'a & medicine wards in the city, those patient that have VAP in admitting diagnosis are excluded from complication statistics. The patient encounter that had the VAP coded in the '''acquired diagnosis''' slot is the unit that is given credit for the '''complication''' occuring in that unit. [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:10, 16 June 2008 (CDT)

== Discussion - Coding VAP in Medicine ==

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 ***Thanks Trish,just wasn't sure if I could code the VAP on medicine. As you know, we are still not using ventilators on our tower units.....kidding....but i wasn't sure. Norine and I discussed this patient, and with the criteria, have coded this patient as a CAP not a VAP. Thanks Wendy
-==June 16, 2008==
+==Reporting of VAP when patients move units==
-*''When the Statistician links admissions in the database between ICU'a & medicine wards in the city, those patient that have VAP in admitting diagnosis are excluded from complication statistics. The patient encounter that had the VAP coded in the '''acquired diagnosis''' slot is the unit that is given credit for the '''complication''' occuring in that unit.''  [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:10, 16 June 2008 (CDT)
+When the Statistician links admissions in the database between ICU'a & medicine wards in the city, those patient that have VAP in admitting diagnosis are excluded from complication statistics. The patient encounter that had the VAP coded in the '''acquired diagnosis''' slot is the unit that is given credit for the '''complication''' occuring in that unit.  [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:10, 16 June 2008 (CDT)
 == Discussion - Coding VAP in Medicine ==