Paneling

Paneling is the process of getting permission to send a patient to PCH (roughly speaking).

The concept is relevant because the process causes delays in discharging patients who are otherwise medically ready for discharge (e.g. have a Transfer Ready DtTm).

We don't collect paneling directly, but we do collect some adjacent points we have used to tag patients being paneled in our data.

• Pre acute living situation.loc_type != PCH S pre acute living situation table and Dispo.S dispo.loc type = "PCH"
• Awaiting/delayed transfer to long-term care/PCH inside or outside of Winnipeg in any Dx Type
• Service tmp entry with the words "Paneling" in it
  • generally ("GH Medicine / Panel in Process", "<service> / Panel Appr PCH", "<service> / Panel Appr CC" or "<service> / Panel Appr Other")
  • see S Cognos Services table)
  • appears to be used only at HSC and GRA, not at STB

Legacy

In our Legacy Data this has been collected as

• Panelling or Discharge Planning
• Project Consults data (only for the LAU Collection Project)