Previous Service field

This field is currently being implemented, please check the instructions and put a discussion for anything that isn't clear. 

The Previous_Service field contains info about the service taking care of the patient prior to admission to the current location.

Collection Instruction

For each patient,

• enter the option that most closely matches
• if previous service is not applicable, enter not applicable
  • Template:Discussion under what circumstances would that be? Ttenbergen 12:14, 2016 March 21 (CDT)
    • Can you add Cancer Care/Oncology and Infectious Disease as we get frequent admissions from them?--CMarks 12:48, 2016 April 11 (CDT)
  • If a patient comes directly from a clinic and you enter the previous service, do you use the same time as the arrival time the same as acceptance time?--CMarks 10:33, 2016 April 13 (CDT)
    • Since this field is related to er wait in the medicine program do you want this field used when the pt transferes from D4 to A3 to D5 (medicine to surgery to medicine)? Judy april 13th, 2016.

Data Use

Used to be:

• ER_Wait#Reporting_and_Analysis
• Template:Discussion Julie, to whom and in what context does Service Sending to ICU get reported? Ttenbergen 12:35, 2016 March 21 (CDT)

Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks

None as of 11:58, 2016 March 21 (CDT).

• Template:Discussion Do we need any? Ttenbergen 11:58, 2016 March 21 (CDT)

Implementation

The field is populated with options from the s_previous_service table.

Legacy

For medicine this concept is related to ER Wait.

For critical care this concept is related to Service Sending to ICU.