Overstay Predictor Project Collection Instructions: Difference between revisions
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For the first 6 questions on the form, create a record for each in tmp entries and check the check box if the answer is Yes. | Within two business days after the bedside nurse has completed the ''Discharge Screening Tool'' the rest of the Predictor data must be collected. For the first 6 questions on the form, create a record for each in tmp entries and check the check box if the answer is Yes. | ||
*If any answer is | *If any answer is ''No'' include a tmp entry indicating where the patient lives. This information can be found on the form as answer number 1 under the '''General Information''' ''Living Arrangements?''. The purpose is to exclude patients currently living in a personal care home from being assigned a transition coordinator since these patients infrequently overstay. | ||
** {{discussion}} further down it said: "For each patient, add a "From..." entry into the Tmp table, e.g. "From Personal Care Home" or "From Home". Patients admitted from a personal care home can not become "red", but at most "yellow"." Is this required only for the patients flagged positive by the nurse tool? I'd have thought we wanted it anyway to be able to evaluate if excluding these people from discharge coordination is valid. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 13:46, 2012 September 13 (CDT). My understanding is that if a patient answers yes to the six questions they would not be coming from an alternative care arrangement. We currently instruct the nurses not to complete any more of the form if the top six questions are answered '''yes''', mainly to save time. This process does not assume the patients could be misleading enough to have the nurse check ''yes'' to the six questions even though the patient is in an alternative care arrangement. I will verify with the nursing members on the committee if we should be collecting living arrangement for all cases. Please remove this comment once reviewed. Please remove comment once reviewed I will update the process if it changes.[[User:LHathout|LHathout]] | ** {{discussion}} further down it said: "For each patient, add a "From..." entry into the Tmp table, e.g. "From Personal Care Home" or "From Home". Patients admitted from a personal care home can not become "red", but at most "yellow"." Is this required only for the patients flagged positive by the nurse tool? I'd have thought we wanted it anyway to be able to evaluate if excluding these people from discharge coordination is valid. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 13:46, 2012 September 13 (CDT). My understanding is that if a patient answers yes to the six questions they would not be coming from an alternative care arrangement. We currently instruct the nurses not to complete any more of the form if the top six questions are answered '''yes''', mainly to save time. This process does not assume the patients could be misleading enough to have the nurse check ''yes'' to the six questions even though the patient is in an alternative care arrangement. I will verify with the nursing members on the committee if we should be collecting living arrangement for all cases. Please remove this comment once reviewed. Please remove comment once reviewed I will update the process if it changes.[[User:LHathout|LHathout]] | ||
Question 4 consists of several sub-questions re. the patient's inability to manage daily activities. If even one of the activities raises a concern then summary answer for the question needs to be | Question 4 consists of several sub-questions re. the patient's inability to manage daily activities. If even one of the activities raises a concern then the summary answer for the question needs to be '''no'''. | ||
Take answers to questions directly from the form, no interpretation, even if you disagree after reading the chart. We will be testing the answers provided by the nurses to determine if they are a better predictor of transition support needs or can be used in conjunction with existing admission data to improve the effectiveness of the prediction tool. If the data were interpreted by the collector it would introduce another factor and make this test less valid. | Take answers to questions directly from the form, no interpretation, even if you disagree after reading the chart. We will be testing the answers provided by the nurses to determine if they are a better predictor of transition support needs or can be used in conjunction with existing admission data to improve the effectiveness of the prediction tool. If the data were interpreted by the collector it would introduce another factor and make this test less valid. If you identify a discrepancy please note it in the Temp Comments field also known as column Q. | ||
If the patient is transferred from one medical unit to another within the facility only the one ''Discharge Screening Tool'' is required and the original Green Yellow Yes designation is retained. You do not need to collect the information from the ''Discharge Screening Tool'' or create new temp files. The Patient does need to be assigned to a Transition Coordinator. | If the patient is transferred from one medical unit to another within the facility only the one ''Discharge Screening Tool'' is required and the original Green Yellow Yes designation is retained. You do not need to collect the information from the ''Discharge Screening Tool'' or create new temp files. The Patient does need to be assigned to a Transition Coordinator. | ||