Readmission
petients who are re-admitted to same program
| Indicators | |
| Indicator: | Readmission |
| Created/Raw: | Created |
| Program: | Critical Care and Medicine |
| Start Date: | |
| End Date: | |
| Reports: | No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator. |
| Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements): | No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator. |
This article is about Multiple Encounter patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.
Exclusions for readmissions are the following:
- There is a planned admission like elective surgery
- Left the ward or unit against medical advice (AMA)
- Palliative patients
- HSC IICU has no readmission
ICU Definition
For ICU, a readmission is a patient where
- (admit date/time) - (most recent ICU discharge date/time to ward or home) <= 48 hours
- is not an Apache type elective surgery
- might be readmitted from Ward within or outside Winnipeg hospitals or home or nursing home
- can also specify to include only from any ward within the region.
Medicine Definition
For medicine, a readmission is a patient where
- (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time to the hospital) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time to the hospital
- is admitted from outside hospital
Legacy information
- (Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program Dec 31, 2006)
Data Use
Use in Category:Reporting