DC Treatment
The concept encoded by this is slightly different than other End-of-life related data so it can not be transferred into new fields that encode related concepts, so we will keep it in the Centralized data.mdb's L Log table. It has been removed from CCMDB.accdb.
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Legacy Content
This page contains Legacy Content.- Explanation: stopped collection in Medicine
- Successor: various tmp and dx codes relating to palliative care and End-of-life related data
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Legacy Content
This page contains Legacy Content.- Explanation: This is a legacy data field, its DataElementEndDate is in the past.
- Successor: No successor was entered
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| Data Element (edit) | |
| Field Name: | R_dc_treat |
| CCMDB Label: | not stated |
| CCMDB tab: | not stated |
| Table: | L_Log table |
| Data type: | string |
| Length: | 50 |
| Program: | CC |
| Created/Raw: | Raw |
| Start Date: | 1988-07-11 |
| End Date: | 2022-05-10 |
| Sort Index: | 12 |
"DC" for critical care patients if life-support treatment is terminated, blank for all others.
This field was also collected in Medicine until 2013-07-04. Collection stopped because the distinction is not clear enough for coding on a medicine ward.
Defined as terminal withdrawal with expectation of death of:
- invasive mechanical ventilation (ET tube or trach)
- vasopressors or inotropes
- ECMO, VV, ECMO, VA
- VAD (Ventricular assistive device)
See Also
See: Comfort Care
Log
- 2022-05-10 removed from collection screen
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