Admit date and time
The concept of "Admit date and time" is not as simple as it might seem due to the way we use it in reporting, and how it has been stored over time.
Current definition as of 2021-04-21
The most recent version is Admit DtTm as derived by Created_AdmitDtTm query
Previous definitions
Legacy Content
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Arrive DtTm and Accept DtTm
The Admit date and time used to designate the time a patient was admitted to the ward/unit. For critical care it designated the time the patient physically arrived on the unit, the one for medicine when the patient was accepted to the medicine service.
Collection instructions for this article were transferred to Arrive DtTm and Accept DtTm as appropriate and deleted from here to prevent accidental use of outdated information. See 2016-07-03 history of the article for old instructions, such as when this was encoded as field R_AdmDate.
CCMDB Data Integrity Checks
- Minimal_Data_Set#CCDMB_Data_Integrity_Checks for patients with Dispo DtTm before 2016-07-01
Date and time formats
Data use
Among other things, the times are used to generate statistics about