Active Treatment

• APACHE II – a patient can be classified into two groups either Actively Treated or Monitored.
• the database program has never utilized the information from this field since starting data collection.
• this field is not part of the APACHE II Score nor is it use in the prediction of death formula.
• current data collection defaults active TX to YES for all patients
• To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS). If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.

Note

• Active treatment (Active Tx) slot in CCMDB.mdb was eliminate from data collection.