Moves for Medicine

When a patient is "MOVED" from the emergency department (ER), the "actual arrival date/time" to a medicine ward, is recorded as the first "MOVE" in the TMP file on the PDA or in ACCESS.

See Admit, Transfer and Discharge date and time#Definition for Medicine for how to collect the time used in the "admit time" field.

Purposes of collecting "Move" data:

1. To assess the "time delay" from when a patient is first accepted to Medicine Service in the ER (emergency room) to when the patient actually arrives in a medicine ward bed. (This is done in conjunction with admit time).
2. To assess how much time an in-service medicine patient spends on off service wards while still under a medicine service physician's care.

Start and stop date

Start Date: September 1, 2007 Stop Date:

Collection Guideline

Follow the Temporary study guidelines with the following information:

• Moves project
• For each patient move, enter the to ward as the item, and the date & time from the unit log or nurses note.

Legacy Data

• Collection was started September 1, 2007
• Collection of Moves data made tagging of “overflows” in variable slots Med Var 3 & Med Var 5 at the VIC redundant (Nov 1.07 stopped).

• we will review this within one year
  • attempted to bring this up at Steering Comittee meetings for review and analysis without success so far.--Ttenbergen 18:26, 16 September 2009 (CDT)
  • will review with the CTU transition team (Tina emailed Sept 16 09)Ttenbergen 18:26, 16 September 2009 (CDT)

Reporting and Analysis

As per email from Julie from 11 sept 09: Haven’t done any analysis on this, just the data checking which had stopped for sometime. Will re-visit.

Data Structure

We capture medicine ward patient movements (moves) in L_TmpV2. The data is sent to and stored in TmpV2_1.mdb.