OVER

OVER is used as an entry in the location field in the Medicine database to indicate a patient who is in the Victoria hospital under a Medicine Physician Service care but spends his entire LOS is in an "off service ward bed".

Data Collection

Serial numbers for "Over" patients come from a different serial number pool for VIC Medicine.

Grace

Grace OVERS (overflow or over census) patients will be handled as follows:

• if a teaching patient enter as:
  • location field: GRA_N3 and
  • Med Var 5: OVZ
• if a non-teaching patient enter as:
  • location field: GRA_N5 and
  • Med Var 5: OVZ

Victoria

"VIC_OVER" is used to code Medicine service patients at the Victoria Hospital who are admitted from ER to a non-VMU bed (off service ward) for their whole stay. This patient has to be admitted to VMU before we track them. Medical Records has a file for Data Collectors in which there are Bed Census Services Reports given to us on a daily basis. These sheets record the clients name ID and which service the client is on and the Doctor.These clients are in emerg and not the wards yet. So what they have done here at the Vic is compare the names with the N5 S5 CTU S3 clients that are admitted and then make a list of the clients who are not admitted to those specific wards. Once that is done you check in Medical records for those names once they are discharged. This also applies for EMIP and OVER patients. We keep a specific log book combined serial log numbers for EMIP and OVERs.

Options for Med Var 5 are :

• N4 - VMU overflow to Surg bed
• N2 - VMU overflow to Family Med
• ICU - VMU overflow to ICU bed
• N6 - VMU overflow to psych bed

Data Processing

• after these patient are sent in and appended to Medicine Database, Data Processor changes location, divides occupancy amongst

• why is this done after, and how does the processor know how to divide these? Ttenbergen 10:07, 26 January 2011 (CST)

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