Dispo field
| Data Element (edit) | |
| Field Name: | dispo |
| CCMDB Label: | Dispo |
| CCMDB tab: | not stated |
| Table: | L_Log |
| Data type: | integer |
| Length: | long |
| Program: | Med and CC |
| Created/Raw: | Raw |
| Start Date: | 2016-07-01 |
| End Date: | 2300-01-01 |
| Sort Index: | 41 |
The Dispo field contains information about what happens to the patient at the end of their admission.
Collection Instruction
If you know the location exactly, you can type it. Otherwise press the "?" button to take you to the S dispo chooser to help filter options if desired.
surviving patients
For each patient,
- enter the location that most closely matches
- for wards where we don't collect, enter e.g. HSC_ward
- for wards where we do collect enter the actual ward as available in the dropdown
- consider bed borrows
AMA
- for patients who leave against medical advice, enter "AMA (left against medical advice)" (type "AMA" to open up drop down where you want it)
Homeless
- Template:Discussion - if pt is homeless and is discharged to say Siloam Mission, what do you enter in Dispo to field? --P:Shirley Kiesman July 12, 17. Please add instruction here and get rid of question.
Parked in ER
Operating room visits
deceased patients
- for patients who expire, one of
- "Died - Organ_Donor" (follow definitions in that article)
- "Died - NOT Organ Donor"
Data Use
- Mortality Rate
- Intra or Inter Transfer Rate
- Discharges out of hospital
- Organ donor rate
- AMA Rate
- Linking admissions
Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks
- cannot use: not applicable
- location_NE_dispo() - Service/Location field can't be same as Dispo field
Following might still need to be implemented:
- Check organ donors must be dead - this is a dx cross check - can it wait for ICD10? Template:ICD10 Actually, I don't think this dx will be available in ICD10, since it's not a diagnosis. So, likely it will only be coded in dispo field once ICD10 is in place, at which point this comment could go. Ttenbergen 09:56, 2016 June 16 (CDT)
Implementation
The field is populated with options from the s_dispo table.
Legacy
This field is part of the 2016 Time and Place changes.
It a combination of our previous
Data from these fields has been back-populated to the this field so data is available from the beginning of the database.
Related articles:
Very early missing Discharge-tos
There were 6762 very old ICU records who are listed as survived but didn’t have a discharge-to. This is from HSC-only days when there simply were no checks.
When data was brought across from the old discharge to field the dispo fields of these records were set to 'survive(Legacy)'.