Transfer Delay: Difference between revisions

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**e.g: Delays in moving a patient -- who is physically in ED but has been admitted to the Medicine service -- to the ward may indicate problems a need for more ward beds, or more effective ED-to-ward transfer

*Regarding a patient deemed Transfer-Ready to a lower Level of Care but who before such transfer gets sicker and remains in their current location/level

**It might seem like those days after the decision to "cancel" the transfer to a lower Level should not be counted as "wasted" ~~-- however~~ we never know what would have happened if the patient had indeed gone to the lower Level promptly, and it is possible that she/he would ''not'' have gotten sicker if ~~that~~ had occurred.

**These days are INCLUDED in the wasted bed-days at the current Level of Care -- while it might seem like those days after the decision to "cancel" the transfer to a lower Level should not be counted as "wasted" at the current Level, the reason we include them is that we never know what would have happened if the patient had indeed gone to the lower Level promptly, and it is possible that she/he would ''not'' have gotten sicker if the transfer had occurred promptly

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 **e.g: Delays in moving a patient -- who is physically in ED but has been admitted to the Medicine service -- to the ward may indicate problems a need for more ward beds, or more effective ED-to-ward transfer
 *Regarding a patient deemed Transfer-Ready to a lower Level of Care but who before such transfer gets sicker and remains in their current location/level
-**It might seem like those days after the decision to "cancel" the transfer to a lower Level should not be counted as "wasted" -- however we never know what would have happened if the patient had indeed gone to the lower Level promptly, and it is possible that she/he would ''not'' have gotten sicker if that had occurred.
+**These days are INCLUDED in the wasted bed-days at the current Level of Care -- while it might seem like those days after the decision to "cancel" the transfer to a lower Level should not be counted as "wasted" at the current Level, the reason we include them is that we never know what would have happened if the patient had indeed gone to the lower Level promptly, and it is possible that she/he would ''not'' have gotten sicker if the transfer had occurred promptly
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