L TmpV2 table
Nov 1.13 - Hi everyone: RE: TMP entries
- Please do not enter date and time for studies into TMP until you have actually confirmed a DX of VAP or CLI exists. Please don't use the TMP as a note section for reminders to yourself. Use the note section on you laptop. Each week when you send data, any INCOMPLETE files are also sent to TMPV2 database. So if you put in a TMP CLI or VAP as only reminder to self then when Julie is asked for reports on CLI or VAP, she picks this up for her report from the TMPV2 database. This affect the data in that it reduces the number days between CLI dates. We have no way of knowing that this only a reminder for you not a confirmed CLI or VAP. Trish Ostryzniuk 15:33, 2013 November 1 (CDT )
L_TmpV2 table (also know as Tmp file)in the CCMDB.mdb contains data that is either intermittent or just not currently accomodated in the rest of the database. When the data collector sends, the data gets dumped to Regional Server\Output\TmpV2_1.mdb (some data is sent every time, some only when the patient is sent, see S Tmp Complete_send for more.)
Usually the data in L_TmpV2 will be data generated by Special Short Term Projects but some other permanently collected data such as ER Wait & Postal code collection is stored here as well.
The table has fields to accomodate dates, integers, reals/floating point variables, text or booleans. It can accomodate one of each of these per line, such that if two variables of the same data type are needed, two lines need to be entered. The table was set up this way to accomodate any possible combination of data, but this flexibility comes at the expense of some inefficiencies in data-entry.
For details about the dropdown options for various projects, and their actual project identifier, see the corresponding project's article. For a list of any projects that have been stored in L_TmpV2, see Category:L TmpV2 Data.
Data Structure
To see the most up-to-date data structure of this table, see most up-to-date ccmdb_data.mdb in Regional Server\data\Master CCMDB.mdb.
| Field Name | Data Type | Usage |
| Serial | Number | unique identifier of patient |
| Site | dropdown-limited text | Hospital where the patient was admitted |
| Location | dropdown-limited text | Ward the patient was admitted to |
| collected | Date/Time | date the variable was collected |
| Project | dropdown-limited text | |
| Item | Text | Project-Item identifier |
| DtTm_var | Date/Time | date/time variable collected, if needed |
| int_var | number | integer variable, if collected |
| float_var | number | float/real variable, if collected |
| bool_var | Yes/No | boolean variable, if collected |
| comment_var | Text | comment variable, if collected |
| Instruction | dropdown-limited text | Instruction as given in the dropdown S_Tmp |
| data_sent | Date/Time | Date/Time the patient was sent |