Minutes Team Meeting December 1, 2010: Difference between revisions

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If a culture is sent and it comes back as a "contaminent" therefore, not pathogenic, then code culture as [[Negative Culture]].

**[[User: TOstryzniuk|Trish Ostryzniuk]] to ask Dr. Kumar is there is any value to include subcode of "contaminent". Question submitted Dec 2.10--[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 19:04, 2 December 2010 (CST)

**[[User:LKolesar|Laura Kolesar]] pointed out an example of a [[Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLR-BSI)]] being coded as an admitting code to a community Hospital. Community Hospital [[User: Mlaporte|Marie Laporte]] had emailed STB site in regards to this because Community site physician note documenting Line Infection. Laura followed up with ID nurse at STB, who verified that Blood Stream infection was not central line related and was a contaminent.

***Dr. Kumar agrees with the above.--[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:45, 6 December 2010 (CST)

*[[User:LKolesar|Laura Kolesar]] pointed out an example of a [[Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLR-BSI)]] being coded as an admitting code to a community Hospital. Community Hospital [[User: Mlaporte|Marie Laporte]] had emailed STB site in regards to this because Community site physician note documenting Line Infection. Laura followed up with ID nurse at STB, who verified that Blood Stream infection was not central line related and was a contaminent.

**Discussion about the CLR-BSI project that is going on across Canada in Critical Care [[CCVSM]]. Central line related BSI are preventable and the goal is for ICU's to have none. Julie inputs this information (central line counts received from ICU each week and number of line infections from the database) into a Canada wide program that many ICU's in Canada are participating in.

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 If a culture is sent and it comes back as a "contaminent" therefore, not pathogenic, then code culture as [[Negative Culture]].
 **[[User: TOstryzniuk|Trish Ostryzniuk]] to ask Dr. Kumar is there is any value to include subcode of "contaminent". Question submitted Dec 2.10--[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 19:04, 2 December 2010 (CST)
-**[[User:LKolesar|Laura Kolesar]] pointed out an example of a [[Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLR-BSI)]] being coded as an admitting code to a community Hospital.  Community Hospital [[User: Mlaporte|Marie Laporte]] had emailed STB site in regards to this because Community site physician note documenting Line Infection.  Laura followed up with ID nurse at STB, who verified that Blood Stream infection was not central line related and was a contaminent.
+***Dr. Kumar agrees with the above.--[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:45, 6 December 2010 (CST)
+*[[User:LKolesar|Laura Kolesar]] pointed out an example of a [[Central Line Related Blood stream Infection (CLR-BSI)]] being coded as an admitting code to a community Hospital.  Community Hospital [[User: Mlaporte|Marie Laporte]] had emailed STB site in regards to this because Community site physician note documenting Line Infection.  Laura followed up with ID nurse at STB, who verified that Blood Stream infection was not central line related and was a contaminent.
 **Discussion about the CLR-BSI project that is going on across Canada in Critical Care [[CCVSM]].  Central line related BSI are preventable and the goal is for ICU's to have none.  Julie inputs this information (central line counts received from ICU each week and number of line infections from the database) into a Canada wide program that many ICU's in Canada are participating in.