ALERT Scale timing of assessment: Difference between revisions

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* When a patient is admitted from the '''emergency department''', use the values that are closest but ''' prior to''' the time medicine service accepts the patient to their service (ie [[Accept DtTm]]).
* When a patient is admitted from the '''emergency department''', use the values that are closest but ''' prior to''' the time medicine service accepts the patient to their service (ie [[Accept DtTm]]).
* When patients '''move between wards''' or ''' from an icu to a ward''' use the values that are closest but '''prior''' to discharge/transfer from the sending service.
* When patients '''move between wards''' or ''' from an icu to a ward''' use the values that are closest but '''prior''' to discharge/transfer from the sending service.
**Exception for STB Medicine: Patients transferred from ICU to ward use the values on arrival to medicine unit.
* For direct transfers to Medicine via the ER use the '''first value''' taken and recorded on the '''triage record'''.
* For direct transfers to Medicine via the ER use the '''first value''' taken and recorded on the '''triage record'''.
* Direct transfers that bypass the ER take the value on arrival to your unit.  
* Direct transfers that bypass the ER take the value on arrival to your unit.


== vs [[Selection and timing of APACHE components]] ==
== vs [[Selection and timing of APACHE components]] ==