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 information about the "originating service" for those patient's who where already in a prior inpatient location before coming to their current service 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

from OR

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

Nursing Home Wards (HSC/GRA)

• 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)

Data Use

Used to be:

• ER_Wait#Reporting_and_Analysis
• Sending service to ICU will be reported to the Critical Care Director.

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Can't be empty.

Implementation

The field is populated with options from the s_previous_service table.

Legacy

For medicine this concept is related to ER Wait.

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