Previous Service field

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

The Previous_Service field contains info about the physician service the patient was admitted under prior to admission to the current location.

Collection Instruction

For each patient,

enter the option that most closely matches
- for medicine ward-to-ward moves, code "medicine" as previous service
- for ICU-to-ICU moves, code "Critical Care" if no other specific service is documented
- for pt from ER, code "Emergency Medicine" unless a different service had accepted them and is handing them off to Medicine
for pt direct from ambulatory care not via ER, code "not applicable"
if the service is not listed, code "other (known but not on list)"
- in these cases we don't care about the details; if we see too many others we may add additional options in future

If a patient comes from an OR/RR, code the responsible surgical service as previous service.

currently we treat these pts as discharges or readmits from Grace Nursing Home ie not as a continuous admission or interhospital transfer. These pts are covered by one of the Medicine attendings while here. Do you want the previous service to be entered as Medicine then? [User:SCortilet|Scortilet]]
- still waiting to hear back from Julie on that. Ttenbergen 13:23, 2016 May 11 (CDT)

Used to be:

Can't be empty.

The field is populated with options from the s_previous_service table.

For medicine this concept is related to ER Wait.

For critical care this concept is related to Service Sending to ICU.