ER Wait

We track the time medicine patients spend in the ER before being admitted to a med ward bed.

Purposes of collecting "ER Wait" data:

To assess the "time delay" from when a patient is first accepted to Medicine Service while in the site's own ER (emergency room) to when the patient actually arrives in a medicine ward bed of the same hospital. (This is done in conjunction with admit time).

Start and stop date

• Start Date: June 4, 2011
• Stop Date: none

Collection Guideline

For every patient admitted from the ER, enter date and time arrived to medicine ward bed

• Any patient admitted from the ER must have one ERWait date/time entered into tmp file. It does not matter if first bed moved to into an in-service or off-service bed.

• project: ER_Wait
• as appropriate one of the following items
  • direct admit - direct admit patient parked in ER on the way. A direct admission means direct admission to medicine ward bed under a medicine physician service but for some reason parked in ER before going to a ward bed.
  • ER admission - all patients accepted to medicine service physician service FROM a ER physician service (does not include those patient that were direct to medicine service.)
• the date & time arrived in med ward bed from the unit log or nurses note.

Data is only sent when all of patient file is complete.

• • • Just to clarify, DIRECT ADMIT= any patient who comes to your hospital emergency via ambulance ,car,or foot from home.ER ADMIT= any patient who comes to your emergency from ambulatory care services, other emergency wards, other hospital wards and angio. Is this correct? Thanks Shirley
      • No. A Direct admission is a patient who is admitted DIRECTLY to a Medicine ward bed from the community or another center or from anywhere else. Admitted directly to a medicine service physician service and not to an emergency service physician.
      • ER admission are those patient that are admitted to medicine physician service FROM a ER physician service.--TOstryzniuk 16:06, 6 June 2011 (CDT)

Reporting and Analysis

Julie? Template:Discussion

Integrity Check

To be implemented as per email exchange ~2011-05-25 between Julie Trish and Tina, and to be documented here. Ttenbergen 15:59, 2 June 2011 (CDT)

Data Structure

We capture medicine ward patient movements (moves) in L_TmpV2. The data is sent to and stored in TmpV2_1.mdb.