Dispo field
This field is currently being implemented, please check the instructions and put a discussion for anything that isn't clear.
The Dispo field contains information about what happens to the patient at the end of their admission.
Collection Instruction
For each patient,
- enter the location that most closely matches
Alternatively,
- for patients who expire, one of
- "Died - Organ Donor"
- "Died - NOT Organ Donor"
- for patients who leave against medical advice, enter "Left AMA"
If you know the location exactly, you can type it. Otherwise press the "?" button to take you to the S dispo chooser to help filter options if desired.
For wards where we don't collect, enter e.g. HSC_ward. For wards where we do collect enter the actual ward as available in the dropdown.
Data Use
- Mortality Rate
- Intra or Inter Transfer Rate
- Discharges out of hospital
- Organ donor rate
- AMA Rate
- Linking admissions
Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks
- Can not be blank
- location_NE_dispo() - Service/Location field can't be same as Dispo field
Following might still need to be implemented:
- Check organ donors must be dead - this is a dx cross check - can it wait for ICD10? Template:ICD10 Ttenbergen 16:29, 2016 May 25 (CDT)
Implementation
The field is populated with options from the s_dispo table.
Legacy
This field is part of the 2016 Time and Place changes.
It a combination of our previous
Related articles:
Template:Discussion clean-up required:
- delete X:\!AdmitFrom_DischTO_NEW_Dispo_codes