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***if a patient who life support treatment was DC'd and he did not die in the ICU and was transferred to a ward and died there a few hours or days later, the ward primary admission code would be Palliative Care, and the DC TX box must also be checked off. [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 01:32, 28 November 2008 (CST)

**Agree with above statement. This is the way I have been coding D/C treatment}}--[[User:FLindell|FLindell]] 08:39, 4 December 2008 (CST)

***Here at the Vic, when we have a patient deemed ACP 1, we do not use D/C treatment. If a patient comes up from ICU and they are D/C

***Here at the Vic, when we have a patient deemed ACP 1, we do not use D/C treatment. If a patient comes up from ICU and they are D/C treatment there, we do code them as palliative care, I personally have not been using the D/C treatment. So this is a collection difference. What is considered imminent? When you say death is imminent? Do we continue to code this way, or are we now going to

treatment there, we do code them as palliative care, I personally have not been using the D/C treatment. So this is a collection difference. What is considered imminent? When you say death is imminent? Do we continue to code this way, or are we now going to

change the way this info is coded this far into the project? [[User:WGobert|WGobert]] 09:38, 4 December 2008 (CST)

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 ***if a patient who life support treatment was DC'd and he did not die in the ICU and was transferred  to a ward and died there a few hours or days later, the ward primary admission code would be Palliative Care, and the DC TX box must also be checked off. [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 01:32, 28 November 2008 (CST)
 **Agree with above statement. This is the way I have been coding D/C treatment}}--[[User:FLindell|FLindell]] 08:39, 4 December 2008 (CST)
-***Here at the Vic, when we have a patient deemed ACP 1, we do not use D/C treatment. If a patient comes up from ICU and they are D/C
+***Here at the Vic, when we have a patient deemed ACP 1, we do not use D/C treatment. If a patient comes up from ICU and they are D/C treatment there, we do code them as palliative care, I personally have not been using the D/C treatment. So this is a collection difference. What is considered imminent? When you say death is imminent? Do we continue to code this way, or are we now going to
-treatment there, we do code them as palliative care, I personally have not been using the D/C treatment. So this is a collection difference. What is considered imminent? When you say death is imminent? Do we continue to code this way, or are we now going to
 change the way this info is coded this far into the project? [[User:WGobert|WGobert]] 09:38, 4 December 2008 (CST)
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