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*Use palliative if the patient's death is not expected to occur imminently.

*if a patient who life support treatment was DC'd and he did not die in the ICU and was transferred to a ward and died there a few hours or days later, the ward primary admission code would be Palliative Care, and the DC TX box must also be checked off. [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 01:32, 28 November 2008 (CST)

===Transfer ready date for DC Treatment/Palliative patients===

{{discussion}} Pts who become ACPC and expire in hospital 3 days to one month after comfort care is ordered.

* I would like to know where this type of patients fits in. Example: a patient who has co- morbids and is admitted with pneumonia and does not improve or deteriorates. The decision is made to provide comfort care only (ACPC). This patient lives three days to one month in hospital and then dies. Does this patient need a transfer ready date?

**I currently code pts who become ACPC and then die within 48 hours as D/C treatment and do not fill out the transfer ready space. If the patient lives longer than 48 hours I will code the patient as [[Palliative Care]] and fill the transfer ready space when the order of ACPC is written. Many of my admitted pts come to the hospital to die and I'm not sure if these patients fit into the transfer/overstay predictor project. Please let me know how you code these cases.Judy Kublick 11:32, 2012 September 24 (CDT)~~

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 *Use palliative if the patient's death is not expected to occur imminently.
 *if a patient who life support treatment was DC'd and he did not die in the ICU and was transferred  to a ward and died there a few hours or days later, the ward primary admission code would be Palliative Care, and the DC TX box must also be checked off. [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 01:32, 28 November 2008 (CST)
+===Transfer ready date for DC Treatment/Palliative patients===
+{{discussion}} Pts who become ACPC and expire in hospital 3 days to one month after comfort care is ordered.
+* I would like to know where this type of patients fits in.  Example: a patient who has co- morbids and is admitted with pneumonia and does not improve or deteriorates.  The decision is made to provide comfort care only (ACPC).  This patient lives three days to one month in hospital and then dies. Does this patient need a transfer ready date?
+**I currently code pts who become ACPC and then die within 48 hours as D/C treatment and do not fill out the transfer ready space.  If the patient lives longer than 48 hours I will code the patient as [[Palliative Care]] and fill the transfer ready space when the order of ACPC is written.  Many of my admitted pts come to the hospital to die and I'm not sure if these patients fit into the transfer/overstay predictor project.  Please let me know how you code these cases.Judy Kublick 11:32, 2012 September 24 (CDT)~~
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