Definition of a Critical Care Laptop Admission

The definition of an "ICU patient" for the Regional ICU Database is:

• A patient admitted under Critical Care service, regardless of their physical location, even if it is a Boarding Loc such as PACU or ER. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the ICU database.
• Exception STB CICU: STB_CICU Admissions start at Arrive_DtTm
• Exception PACU: pts in PACU are to be included if they are under critical care, but not if they are under surgery

• Special case: Pts in ICU for procedures only: as per Bed borrow exclude patients brought into ICUs for procedures only; these would likely not show up in the Cognos reports because the service does not change to ICU for them

This definition does not deal with surgical / SICU pts who may well not be under the critical service. If they are in Emerg or ECIP or PACU, how would a pt be identified as an SICU pt?

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Exceptions

• STB_CICU Admissions start at Arrive_DtTm

Reporting

We need to ensure consistency with pages like Length of Stay (ICU Report) which rely on this definition.

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