Moves for Medicine
Moves for Medicine
How and What to collect
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Primary Purpose of MOVE data - ER Delays
To assess the time delay from when a patient is first accepted to Medicine Service in ER (emergency room) to when the patient actually arrives in a medicine ward bed.
Secondary Purpose of MOVE data - Off-war care
To assess how much time an in-service medicine patient spends on off service wards while still under a medicine service physician's care. (we will assess this in one year and see if there is any useful information there).
Legacy Data
- Collection was started September 1, 2007
- Collection of Moves data made tagging of “overflows” in variable slots 3 & 5 at the VIC redundant (Nov 1.07 stopped).
We capture medicine ward patient movements (moves) in L_TmpV2.
- The current “MOVE” data is now much more informative because it not only includes the location that a patient has moved to, but also the date and time therefore we can assess total LOS in ER or in an off-service ward bed.
- With the addition of MOVE data,
- need to add more informationTOstryzniuk 17:52, 12 August 2008 (CDT)