Visit Admit DtTm field

This field is currently being implemented, please check the instructions and put a discussion for anything that isn't clear. 

The Visit Admit DtTm field contains the date and time of the admission to the current hospitalization at your site.

I still need to implement this in CCMDB, but would welcome your comments already!

Collection Instruction

For each patient,

• open the patient in EPR
• click on location history (was that the name? Could someone sent me a screen shot of the button?)
• find the earliest date/time in the list; e.g. this might be the ER Triage date
• enter that date into the Visit Admit DtTm field.

Questions?

• Do you see any issues collecting this? Ttenbergen 15:35, 2016 April 18 (CDT)
  • patient transferred from ICMS to ward, ICU would have captured the first date and time in the EPR, what should medicine capture? the same date/time that ICU captured? Lisa Kaita 09:37, 2016 April 21 (CDT)
• We use "Accept D/T" as admission to hospital D/T. Patients are not admitted until a service accepts them and admit orders are reflecting this as such.

Visit admit remains unclear to me...clients present to ER and are waiting to be seen etc prior their actual admission point...do you want this field representing the D/T when they present to ER?--Llemoine 11:20, 2016 April 21 (CDT)

Background

Right now you guys collect detailed to/from info in Var1/2. The details are primarily used for linking. Collecting the Hospital Admit DtTm will make that information irrelevant for wards where we don't collect, so we will be able to code "from" for wards where we don't collect just as "HSC Ward"(eg).

Data Use

This data is used to understand Length of Stay and for linking.

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• must be <= Arrive DtTm field

Legacy

This field is part of the 2016 Time and Place changes.

It is being added to simplify the old linking - if we have the hospital admit date and time, we are done linking, none of the previous complex process will be needed any longer.