Allied Health Consults

Please do not discuss this project 
with other staff except collectors 
at your sites.  
This project will observe staff 
behaviour and we are concerned about a 
Hawthorne effect. 

Purpose

To determine how many allied health consults patients are getting, in part to determine the effect of the Overstay Predictor Project on this variable.

Audit Dates

• Starting: TBD, early Nov
• Ending: 3- 4 weeks after start date

Collection Instructions

Generate a tmp entry for the first relevant allied health discipline if they had a consult

- while admitted to your ward (ie after admission, before discharge)

- in the ER immediately prior to admission to your ward

• Project:AlliedHC
• Item (as appropriate):
  • Home Care
  • Physio
  • OT
  • Social work
• no other fields need to be filled, i.e. no times etc.

Data use and analysis

The data will be analyzed as part of the Overstay project. Tina is involved with that and can provide it directly.