Definition of a Medicine Program Admission
For Critical Care, see Definition_of_an_ICU_admission
The definition of a "Medicine patient" for the Regional Medicine Database is:
- admitted under a Medicine service attending physician. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the Medicine database.
for medicine it starts at acceptance while in ER
Including Neuro patients
- We collect all the neuro patients per Dan Roberts instructions.--CMarks 13:42, 2015 July 8 (CDT)
- This is still actively collected per Dan Robert's instructions.--CMarks 11:21, 2015 July 25 (CDT)
Beds borrowed from Medicine are not Medicine admissions
see bed borrow