Direct admit

See Parked in ER for collection instructions.

Direct admissions are in-patients who are accepted from another site (within region or from out-of-town) and come directly to the next site.

Usually, these patients should go straight to the accepting ward at the second site. However they occasionally move through the ER and are sometimes delayed there. In that case, they need to be collected as Parked in ER.

• There are two types of Direct admits:
  • already an Inpatient
  • not an Inpatient

Legacy

Collection for this was changed as part of the 2016 Time and Place changes.

This used to be relevant to ER Wait and ICU Var 4 - Parked in ER, Parked in ER tmp entry.

Content of the article was deleted 2016-06-30 so it doesn't inadvertently show up in searches. See article history if needed.