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 (NOTE: September 1, 2007 ER Wait was included with Moves for Medicine).
• 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
  • ER admission - is a patient who is admitted TO a medicine service physician FROM a ER physician service.
  • direct admit - A direct admission means direct admission TO medicine physician service but for some reason parked in ER before going to a ward bed. These patients are NOT admitted under a ER physician service prior to being accepted 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.

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.