Moves for Medicine

We collect "Moves" data to assess

• the time delay from when a patient is first accepted to Medicine Service in ER (emergency room) to when the patient actually arrives in a medicine ward bed
• how much time an in-service medicine patient spends on off service wards while still under a medicine service physician's care.

Collection Guideline

Follow the Temporary study guidelines with the following information:

• Moves project
• For each patient move, enter the to ward as the item, and the date & time from the unit log or nurses note.

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If the admission is suppose to be a "Direct" admission but the patient comes into ER first, the admit time is the triage time and we put parked in ER in our Tmp on the PDA. For patients admitted from ICU,ambulatory care or other wards the admission time is the time that they arrive to the ward.GHall 16:58, 26 May 2008 (CDT)

Legacy Data

• Collection was started September 1, 2007
• Collection of Moves data made tagging of “overflows” in variable slots 3 & 5 at the VIC redundant (Nov 1.07 stopped).
• we will review this within one year
  • attempted to bring this up at steering comittee meetings for review and analysis without success so farTtenbergen 18:26, 16 September 2009 (CDT)
  • will review with the CTU transition team (Tina emailed Sept 16 09)Ttenbergen 18:26, 16 September 2009 (CDT)

Data Structure

We capture medicine ward patient movements (moves) in L_TmpV2. The data is sent to and stored in TmpV2_1.mdb.