VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Difference between revisions
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* If a patient has a '''VAP''' in the '''ICU''' and is then transferred to the '''ward''', should the ward code the VAP in the admit diagnosis also? I had been talking to the medicine data collectors about this issue and they said they were told not to code it as a HAP but as a HAP. | * If a patient has a '''VAP''' in the '''ICU''' and is then transferred to the '''ward''', should the ward code the VAP in the admit diagnosis also? I had been talking to the medicine data collectors about this issue and they said they were told not to code it as a HAP but as a HAP. | ||
**''When a VAP that had been acquired in ICU is not resolved when a patient is transferred to a Medicine ward, and it is still being treated on the Medicine ward then VAP '''should be''' an '''admitting diagnosis''' code. If VAP was resolved in the ICU before the patient was sent to the ward, then don't include in your diagnosis codes.'' | **''When a VAP that had been acquired in ICU is not resolved when a patient is transferred to a Medicine ward, and it is still being treated on the Medicine ward then VAP '''should be''' an '''admitting diagnosis''' code. If VAP was resolved in the ICU before the patient was sent to the ward, then don't include in your diagnosis codes.'' | ||
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