Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission: Difference between revisions

Since the definition varies from site and unit, for the Statistician to get the correct admission date time to the ICU which is to be used to calculate [[Length of Stay (ICU Report)]], the admission  date and time must be entered in the  [[Service Tmp entry]] as its  first service entry  '''Start date and time'''.  It would be hard to get the date and time information to the first Boarding Loc because the first physical location may not be the unit but just a boarding location and by definition does  not necessarily imply that the patient is already being taken over by the ICU service. Neither getting the correct admission date time  to the succeeding boarding location which can also be a boarding location.