Definition of a Medicine Program Admission

For Critical Care, see Definition_of_an_ICU_admission

The definition of a "Medicine patient" for the Regional Medicine Database is:

• admitted under a Medicine service attending physician. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the Medicine database.

Bed Borrows are not Medicine admissions

There are circumstances where other services "borrow" a Medicine bed for procedures or monitoring or testing but patient is not admitted under Medicine attending. Do not collect these patients.

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Discussion

• On H4H we get a few patients admitted to the high obs from other hospitals for neuro consults. The direction I have been given is to include them in my data if they are there for more than 24 hours.These short stays have occured infequently on my ward.We do however have lots of patients who are admitted under neurology and I have been including these as Medicine Admits.

• Has anything been done to implement Dr. Robert's instructions to flag these neurology short stay patients? Or, for that matter, to flag the neurology patients? Now that they are staying longer we might want to review whether he wants to collect them. If we want to implement this, I would suggest doing it as a Category:Special Short Term Projects, and with limited duration and a plan to analyze and act. Ttenbergen 16:38, 11 September 2009 (CDT) Ttenbergen 22:23, 2014 October 6 (CDT)

• How are these patients different from other bed borrows, and does this have any impact on our decision not to collect other bed borrows? Ttenbergen 18:09, 10 September 2009 (CDT) Ttenbergen 22:23, 2014 October 6 (CDT)