Readmission

This article is about Multiple Encounter patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.

ICU Definition

For ICU, a readmission is a patient where

• (admit date/time) - (most recent ICU discharge date/time to ward or home) <= 72 hours
• is not admitted for planned and scheduled surgery
  • do we use the Apache type elective surgery for that?Template:Discussion
• might be readmitted from Ward or outside hospital
  • is there anywhere pt would not be allowed to be admitted from? Ttenbergen 18:07, 2012 November 22 (EST) Ttenbergen 12:54, 2014 January 16 (CST)Template:Discussion

Medicine Definition

For medicine, a readmission is a patient where

• (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time to the hospital) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time to the hospital
• is admitted from outside hospital

Legacy information

• (Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program Dec 31, 2006)

Data Use

• which reports use this? Ttenbergen 12:54, 2014 January 16 (CST) Template:Discussion