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* Code it as the ICU service that the patient '''SHOULD HAVE BEEN under upon initial admission to the ICU Service in this hospital''', i.e. at the start of [[Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission | this record]] | * Code it as the ICU service that the patient '''SHOULD HAVE BEEN under upon initial admission to the ICU Service in this hospital''', i.e. at the start of [[Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission | this record]] | ||
** Leave it blank if the very first day in ICU in that hospital, the patient was, in fact under the "correct" ICU service, i.e. the service that ''should have'' been taking care of the patient -- and as this is the majority of all ICU records, this variable will usually be left blank. | ** Leave it blank if the very first day in ICU in that hospital, the patient was, in fact under the "correct" ICU service, i.e. the service that ''should have'' been taking care of the patient -- and as this is the majority of all ICU records, this variable will usually be left blank. | ||
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* Patient with acute MI admitted via ED. He should have been under the ACCU service in ACCU but ACCU was full. So he was admitted to ICMS instead '''''under the ICMS Service'''''. Thus here [[Intended1stSrvc]] = ACCU. }} | * Patient with acute MI admitted via ED. He should have been under the ACCU service in ACCU but ACCU was full. So he was admitted to ICMS instead '''''under the ICMS Service'''''. Thus here [[Intended1stSrvc]] = ACCU. }} | ||