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* To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS).  If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.
* To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS).  If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.


{{discussion} If this is not part of APACHE then why is this article linking to and categorized as that? Ttenbergen
{{discussion}} If this is not part of APACHE then why is this article linking to and categorized as that? Ttenbergen


== Data use ==
== Data use ==

Revision as of 15:57, 27 March 2014

  • APACHE II – a patient can be classified into two groups either Actively Treated or Monitored.
  • the database program has never utilized the information from this field since starting data collection.
  • this field is not part of the APACHE II Score nor is it use in the prediction of death formula.
  • current data collection defaults active TX to YES for all patients
  • To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS). If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.

Template:Discussion If this is not part of APACHE then why is this article linking to and categorized as that? Ttenbergen

Data use

Template:Discussion How do we use this? Ttenbergen

Note

  • Active treatment (Active Tx) slot in CCMDB.mdb was eliminate from data collection.