Off ward field
The Off ward field is set to true if the patient who meets the Definition of a Medicine Service admission or Definition of an ICU admission spent any time in an bed that is not at their actual collection location between Arrive DtTm and Dispo DtTm. This includes patients who spent their entire admission off-ward, but not #EMIPs.
Collection Instructions - current ward
The field is located underneath the Service/Location field.
If the patient meets the definition at the top, check the "off ward" checkbox.
Collection Instructions - next ward (if applicable)
The Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field and Previous Location field of the next encounter would use the Service/Location field of the previous collection location where available, not the off-ward location.
The Service/Location field would contain the laptop's regular collection location, not the off-ward location.
Collection Instructions - previous ward (if applicable)
The Dispo field of the next encounter would use the Service/Location field of the next collection location where available, not the off-ward location.
Not intended for off-ward tests
see Bed holds
EMIP
EMIPs are in their collection location, e.g. GRA_EMIP, so they are not off ward. Don't check the field.
Parked in ER
Parked in ER is before Arrive DtTm, so they are not "off ward". Don't check the field.
Data Use
Relevant to occupancy and some patient risks.
See also
Legacy
initial mis-connection
From 2016-07-01 to 2016-08-?? the control for this field had been incorrectly connected to the pharm_complete field. Since medicine doesn't use that field we could reclaim data for medicine from there. CC uses the field so could not reclaim data for them. Data for CC will be reported starting 2016-09-01.
pre-2016 fields for similar content
We used to collect related information in multiple places. Once we are comfortable with the new dispo fields we want to stop collection of the old fields. The fields are:
Old data would be transferred to new fields where the translation is not ambiguous. We can keep a snapshot of Centralized with the data pre-translation in case we ever want to go back to it.