OVER
OVER is used as a LOCATION in the Medicine database. This indicates a patient is in the hospital under a Medicine Physician Service care, but his entire LOS is in an "off service ward bed". For example
- OVER is used as location for Medicine service patients at the Victoria Hospital who are admitted from ER to a non-VMU bed (off service ward) for their whole stay. This patient has to be admitted to VMU before we track them. We use different serial numbers for this.
- after these patient are sent in and appended to Medicine Database, Data Processor changes location, divides occupancy amongst
- Grace OVERS (overflow or over census) patients will be handled as follows:
- if a teaching patient
- site_ location field will be entered by data collector as: GRA_N3 and
- variable 5: OVZ
- if a non-teaching patient
- site_location field will entered by data collector as: GRA_N5 and
- variable 5: OVZ
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Medical Records has a file for Data Collectors in which there are Bed Census Services Reports given to us on a daily basis. These sheets record the clients name ID and which service the client is on and the Doctor.These clients are in emerg and not the wards yet. So what they have done here at the Vic is compare the names with the N5 S5 CTU S3 clients that are admitted and then make a list of the clients who are not admitted to those specific wards. Once that is done you check in Medical records for those names once they are discharged. This also applies for EMIP and OVER patients. We keep a specific log book combined serial log numbers for EMIP and OVERs.