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== Criteria when to code CLI as [[Acquired Diagnosis / Complication]] vs [[Admit Diagnosis]] == | == Criteria when to code CLI as [[Acquired Diagnosis / Complication]] vs [[Admit Diagnosis]] == | ||
In addition to [[#Timeline to consider Central Line Related (CLR-BSI)]], to code the CLI as as a [[Acquired Diagnosis / Complication]] one of the following must be true: | |||
* the patient must have been on this unit for 48 hours before the lab sample was taken | * the patient must have '''been on this unit for at least 48 hours'' before the lab sample was taken | ||
* lab sample | * lab sample must have been taken ''''within 48 hours of patient leaving the unit''' | ||
The ICU collectors do not follow patients once they leave the ICU so those who leave and subsequently develop a line infection may be captured by the medicine collectors if it is on a ward in our program. | The ICU collectors do not follow patients once they leave the ICU so those who leave and subsequently develop a line infection may be captured by the medicine collectors if it is on a ward in our program. | ||