Direct admit

This is relevant to ER Wait. There originally was a question there regarding why we collect this. I think we collect it primarily to prevent the cross-check for ER Wait from firing if there is no legitimate ER wait entry. However, if an ER bed is taken up, is that what we want to be collecting? Template:Discussion

Direct Admissions

DEFINITION: If a patient has been sent from a ward, ER or ICU to your hospital where the sending physician has discussed the case with the accepting physician and the accepting physician has accepted the pt to their service, this is a direct admission. These patients could still stop off in your ER, but are not seen by the ER doctors. Normally, when these direct admit patients arrive in ER, the accepting physician or service will be paged by ER and they will go down to assess the patient there and arrange for the pt admission. (this is usually the case with patients sent form other hospital ER's or wards). Patients that require ICU care and the ICU physician has accepted them will usually go directly to the ICU (without stopping in ER)

Direct to Medicine ward from Ambulatory Care

DIRECT to Medicine are patients who the medicine service attending Dr. has already accepted to their service, but the patient is sent to the ER to wait for a ward bed.

Example of Direct to medicine from ambulatory care clinic: Admit FROM: HA Registry Admit date: Medicine service Accept date (date and time admitted to medicine service): is the date and time patient came to ER ER Wait Tmp entry: the date and time patient actually arrived on the ward Comment type in as follows: parked in ER

If a patient is sent to ER from ambulatory care to be assessed by Medicine Service in ER to see if he should or should not be admitted to a med ward bed, then this is not a direct admission to medicine. Admit from is HE.