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==Direct Admissions== | ==Direct Admissions== | ||
DEFINITION: If a patient has been sent from a ward, ER or ICU to your hospital where the sending physician has discussed the case with the accepting physician and the accepting physician has accepted the pt to their service, this is a direct admission. These patients could still stop off in your ER, but are not seen by the ER doctors. Normally, when these direct admit patients arrive in ER, the accepting physician or service will be paged by ER and they will go down to assess the patient there and arrange for the pt admission. (this is usually the case with patients sent form other hospital ER's or wards). Patients that require ICU care and the ICU physician has accepted them will usually go directly to the ICU (without stopping in ER) | DEFINITION: If a patient has been sent from a ward, ER or ICU to your hospital where the sending physician has discussed the case with the accepting physician and the accepting physician has accepted the pt to their service, this is a direct admission. These patients could still stop off in your ER, but are not seen by the ER doctors. Normally, when these direct admit patients arrive in ER, the accepting physician or service will be paged by ER and they will go down to assess the patient there and arrange for the pt admission. (this is usually the case with patients sent form other hospital ER's or wards). Patients that require ICU care and the ICU physician has accepted them will usually go directly to the ICU (without stopping in ER) | ||
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Med collectors....please adjust any instructions if needed and then remove discussion. Thanks | |||
=== Direct to Medicine ward from Ambulatory Care === | |||
DIRECT to Medicine are patients who the medicine service attending Dr. has already accepted to their service, but the patient is sent to the ER to wait for a ward bed. | |||
Example of Direct to medicine from ambulatory care clinic: | |||
Admit FROM: HA | |||
Registry Admit date: Medicine service Accept date (date and time admitted to medicine service): is the date and time patient came to ER | |||
Tmp field: is the date and time patient actually arrived on the ward | |||
Comment type in as follows: parked in ER | |||
If a patient is sent to ER from ambulatory care to be assessed by Medicine Service in ER to see if he should or should not be admitted to a med ward bed, then this is not a direct admission to medicine. Admit from is HE. | |||
[[Category: Admit/Discharge]] | [[Category: Admit/Discharge]] | ||
Revision as of 09:49, 2015 June 12
Direct Admissions
DEFINITION: If a patient has been sent from a ward, ER or ICU to your hospital where the sending physician has discussed the case with the accepting physician and the accepting physician has accepted the pt to their service, this is a direct admission. These patients could still stop off in your ER, but are not seen by the ER doctors. Normally, when these direct admit patients arrive in ER, the accepting physician or service will be paged by ER and they will go down to assess the patient there and arrange for the pt admission. (this is usually the case with patients sent form other hospital ER's or wards). Patients that require ICU care and the ICU physician has accepted them will usually go directly to the ICU (without stopping in ER)
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Med collectors....please adjust any instructions if needed and then remove discussion. Thanks
Direct to Medicine ward from Ambulatory Care
DIRECT to Medicine are patients who the medicine service attending Dr. has already accepted to their service, but the patient is sent to the ER to wait for a ward bed.
Example of Direct to medicine from ambulatory care clinic: Admit FROM: HA Registry Admit date: Medicine service Accept date (date and time admitted to medicine service): is the date and time patient came to ER Tmp field: is the date and time patient actually arrived on the ward Comment type in as follows: parked in ER
If a patient is sent to ER from ambulatory care to be assessed by Medicine Service in ER to see if he should or should not be admitted to a med ward bed, then this is not a direct admission to medicine. Admit from is HE.