Continuous Stay

This article is about Multiple Encounter patients who have not been discharged in between encounters.

Continuous stay at one hospital

As per Transfer time rule a stay at one hospital is considered continuous if the difference between discharge dttm on one ward/unit and admit dttm at the next is at least 5 minutes.

Identification

A pair of records for the same patient is a continuous stay if:

• consider the record with the earlier admit dttm as the "first" and the other the "second"
• the combination of discharge-to and Med Var 2 - Discharge-to Ward field in the first the location field in the second match
• the admit-from field in the second and the location field in the first match
• see Transfer time rule re the acceptable differences between discharge and admit time to consider as continuous stay

• 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.
  • still outstanding Ttenbergen 22:22, 2014 May 20 (CDT)

dumping here for now

• For ICU patient transferring to another ICU area Or ICU patient who went to OR and/or comes from OR or Recovery to an ICU between same or different hospital, the max time to consider a continuous link is <= 2days (48 hours). If more than 2 days, the next ICU admission is considered as new admission and not a transfer.

Transfers to another hospital with admission to a non-data collection ward

Both medicine and ICU collectors record the time the patient physically left your unit.Dr Garland May 9,2013