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| ** The Data Processor fixes any errors found ensuring the consistencies in the demographics of same patient on both databases. | | ** The Data Processor fixes any errors found ensuring the consistencies in the demographics of same patient on both databases. |
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| == Continuous Hospital Stay - Medicine == | | == Related Concepts == |
| The [[statistician]] uses data from [[Admit From & Discharged To]], [[Med Var 1 - Admit-from Ward]] and [[Med Var 2 - Discharge-to Ward]] to
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| * link profiles from one ward to another when both wards are within the database program
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| ** {{discussion}} what do you mean "when both wards are within the database program" - would we have data if they were not?Ttenbergen 18:07, 2012 November 22 (EST)
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| * detect a likely continuous stay when a pt is discharged from one of our wards to a non-collected ward and then re-admitted to one of our wards from the same non-collected ward.
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| == Readmissions ==
| | [[Category: Statistical Analysis]] |
| For our purposes, readmissions are admissions of patients who were recorded by our database recently.
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| === ICU Definition ===
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| For ICU, a readmission is a patient where
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| * (admit date/time) - (most recent ICU discharge date/time to ward or home) <= 72 hours
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| * is '''not''' admitted for planned and scheduled surgery
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| * might be readmitted from Ward or outside hospital
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| ** is there anywhere pt would not be allowed to be admitted from? Ttenbergen 18:07, 2012 November 22 (EST) {{discussion}}
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| === Medicine Definition ===
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| For medicine, a readmission is a patient where
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| * (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time to the hospital) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time to the hospital
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| * is admitted from outside hospital
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| * ''(Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program Dec 31, 2006)''
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| [[Category: Multi-encounter check | *]] | | [[Category: Multi-encounter check | *]] |