Bed holds

A bed hold is when a patient leaves the ward/unit for a period of time but the bed is not released and the patient is not discharged. Possible reasons include surgery or tests at another site.

Guideline for beds held while pt offsite

• If the pt is away <= 23 hours and is not admitted to a unit where we collect data during that time, continue the same profile
• If the pt is away > 23 hours or is admitted to a unit where we collect data during that time, regardless if the bed is held, the pt should be discharged and a new profile started when the pt returns.

23 vs 24 hrs

AJTT Julie seems to set the limit at 1 day ( e.g. in LOS Medicine per hospital admission and Continuous Stay) - emailed Julie Ttenbergen 10:07, 2016 November 10 (CST)

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Discussed; outcome:

• we should get the actual data from ADT instead, rather than defining an arbitrary limit.
• Allan will update the instructions in here, and then Tina will update the linking from pages that use this concept.

de-duplicate

several uses in LOS Medicine per hospital admission

duplication on wiki needs to be cleaned up once we are on same page

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details are duplicated at articles in "what links here", should get rid of details elsewhere and only have them here, but need to discuss with Julie.