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.

Short Stay Neuro Patients on H4H

Dec 08 Gail Hall reported short stay patients on HSC H4H who were admitted under neurology euro and may be receiving diagnostic testing or procedures but cared for by H4H nurses. Wanted to know if these should be collected, possibly with a tag so we can identify them later. On 5 Feb 09 Dr Roberts answered to include the patients and label them as short stay.

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.
• 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)