Check VAP acquired only first encounter
| Data Integrity Checks | |
| Summary: | VAP should only be Acquired Diagnosis on the first encounter. |
| Related: | Pneumonia, ventilator-associated (VAP), Acquired Diagnosis, Multiple Encounter |
| Firmness: | hard check |
| Timing: | always |
| App: | Centralized data front end.accdb |
| Coding: | not entered |
| Uses L Problem table: | not entered |
| Status: | needs review |
| Implementation Date: | not entered |
| Backlogged: | true |
VAP should only be acquired dx on first encounter
VAP should only be Acquired Diagnosis on the first encounter. There have not so far been any validated re-acquisitions during the same stay.
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We decided that VAP can actually happen in medicine if pt admitted from ICU. How would we deal with that for this check? What do we even mean by encounter, now with patientFollow? |
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