OVER
OVER is used as an entry in the location field in the Medicine database to indicate a patient who is in the Victoria hospital under a Medicine Physician Service care but spends his entire LOS is in an "off service ward bed".
Data Collection
Grace
Grace OVERS (overflow or over census) Data collectors will handled as follows:
- if a teaching patient enter as:
- location field: GRA_N3 and
- Med Var 5: OVZ
- teaching, use N3 serial number pool
- if a non-teaching patient enter as:
- location field: GRA_N5 and
- Med Var 5: OVZ
- NT use N5 serial number pool
Victoria
"VIC_OVER" is used to code 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. 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.
- VIC MED: Serial numbers for all "Over" patients come from a different serial number pool. Started at serial #1 on: May 9, 2007
Data Processing
- VIC site: after patients are sent in and appended to Medicine Database, Data Processor changes location, divides occupancy amongst: VIC_S5, VIC_N5, VIC_S3. VIC_S4 CTU excluded.
- GRA site: no changes done by processor.
- why is this done after, and how does the processor know how to divide these? Ttenbergen 10:07, 26 January 2011 (CST)