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If an ICU or Medicine patient expires and the chart is no longer available on the unit it has likely gone to the Death Desk. The death desk is on the main floor beside medical records. Once that desk is finished with the chart they will often be found in the transplant audit which is behind the main medical record desk. Charts forwarded to Transplant Audit will ONLY apply to ICU patients.
If an ICU or Medicine patient expires and the chart is no longer available on the unit it has likely gone to the Death Desk. The death desk is on the main floor beside medical records.  
 
In the case of ICU patients, once that desk is finished with the chart they will often be found in the transplant audit which is behind the main medical record desk.  




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Revision as of 15:13, 28 August 2013

If an ICU or Medicine patient expires and the chart is no longer available on the unit it has likely gone to the Death Desk. The death desk is on the main floor beside medical records.

In the case of ICU patients, once that desk is finished with the chart they will often be found in the transplant audit which is behind the main medical record desk.