Direct admit

Direct Admissions

DEFINITION: If a patient has been sent from a ward, ER or ICU to your hospital where the sending physician has discussed the case with the accepting physician and the accepting physician has accepted the pt to their service, this is a direct admission. These patients could still stop off in your ER, but are not seen by the ER doctors. Normally, when these direct admit patients arrive in ER, the accepting physician or service will be paged by ER and they will go down to assess the patient there and arrange for the pt admission. (this is usually the case with patients sent form other hospital ER's or wards). Patients that require ICU care and the ICU physician has accepted them will usually go directly to the ICU (without stopping in ER)