Active Treatment

●*APACHE II – a patient can be classified into two groups either Actively Treated or Monitored.

• the database program has never utilized the information from this field since starting data collection.
• this field is not part of the APACHE II Score nor is it use in the prediction of death formula.
• current data collection defaults active TX to YES for all patients
• To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS). If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.

Template:Discussion ●*Active treatment (Active Tx) slot to be eliminate from data collection. Will let you know when.TOstryzniuk 17:37, 9 December 2008 (CST)