ICU Var 6 - AMA

ICU Var 6 has various uses.

Possible Value:

P - Pre-booked ICU bed. (tag start date: Mar 1/99 GRACE)
H - Held bed : While patient admitted post procedure in an other ICU. (Tag started at the GRA in 2002. Tag not used much)
AMA - discharged Against Medical Advice. (Tag start: Date 2006)
FT - Fast Track cardiac surgery patient @ STB. (Tag start date: Jan 26.07)

Legacy Data

S - Study patient. Any patient enrolled in an ICU study. (tag started: July 1999)
- Primary reason to use this tag was to ID those patients that had more than average blood test done during their ICU admission. A number of patients in clinical trials had agreed to additional lab tests for monitoring. This use to affect the average lab test stats, so we tagged them as "S" and had the option to exclude if study is reason to be an outlier.

When was the use of the "S" tag discontinued? Ttenbergen 03:19, 24 July 2008 (CDT)
What if several apply? I.E. what is to be coded if a patient is both "P" and "AMA"? We can't record both, so likely they should not all be recorded in the same variable. If none can be dropped, we need to prioritize the importance of coding them, and Julie needs to put that caveat on her numbers. --Ttenbergen 03:22, 24 July 2008 (CDT)
Are any more of these discontinued? Do we have further start/end dates? --Ttenbergen
Does anyone use the study patient in this variable? Does anyone use this data?--LKolesar 12:50, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
- No. Should be relegated to legacy and taken out of drop down lists in PDA and ACCESS.TOstryzniuk 18:27, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
  - some problems with deletion for now, this thread can be deleted when the item is no longer in the S_ list on the PDA.-- Ttenbergen 03:25, 24 July 2008 (CDT)
If H is not used much - is that because there are not many, or because it is not being entered? Is Julie actually using it? If not, it also should be made legacy... Ttenbergen 03:22, 24 July 2008 (CDT)