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| === Special Case - EMIP/ECIP === | | === Special Case - EMIP/ECIP === |
| See [[2020-10 EMIP changes]] | | See [[2020-10 EMIP changes]] |
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| === Special Case - CAU ===
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| {{Guideline CAU vs Boarding Loc vs EMIP}}
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| {{Discuss|If the patient ends up moving to a ward from CAU, why would we treat the CAU as a boarding loc? We don’t collect data on CAU patients so wouldn’t it be a new profile? I know at one time the CAU was considered an extension of the ER, but I believe that may have changed now, as I believe all of the CAU’s are located away from the ER’s and are considered an inpatient location, under family medicine service. e.g at HSC the CAU is now located on WRS3, At Grace it is located in the old ER and are under a grace HMO. At SBGH I think CAU is located on 6AS. I will double check with our admitting girls. If it is an inpatient location then this would not be an EMIP. After checking with admitting, CAU is considered an inpatient location. If we were to treat all admissions to CAU as an EMIP we would have quite a few, that is not our current practice (ie. we do not enter CAU patients as EMIP'S), we do not follow CAU patients.
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| *I can only speak to what I've seen at the Grace - it seems our CAU is intended to be a brief stay. Like they need a little more time/care than can be given in ER, but won't need a prolonged admission. If after a couple days the patient isn't improving and will need to be admitted they'll be taken over by medicine and get admitted to the ward. We've never treated CAU as a boarding loc, and my understanding the only Accept Time that we enter (and track) is the ER to ward times. [[User:Surbanski|Surbanski]] 08:19, 2020 October 16 (CDT)}}
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| === Special Case - COVID === | | === Special Case - COVID === |