2020-10 COVID unit collection

This page explains how we will collect data on patients located in COVID units or other temporary units starting 2020-Oct-15.

Instructions

How do we decide which patients to include

Include all patients admitted under the services you generally collect.

As in the first wave will we exclude those patients that are not under any of our medicine services? Ie. neurology and respiratory patients but we do include nephrology patients. I will pass this question on to Julie, since reporting needs should drive the answer to this. Ttenbergen 21:22, 2020 October 15 (CDT) what was done in the past? are we collecting nephro under Medicine service? I thought we are only collecting patients under Medicine service in the designated Covid wards? This is what I have said to GRA when the same question was asked to me. Trish can you confirm? --JMojica 11:18, 2020 October 26 (CDT) This is a bit tricky. should we collect all COVID admitted at E6 or just those under Medicine service? I think collect only those under Medicine Service. enter in the boarding Loc STB Covid unit and in the comment E6 to differentiate it with A6GY. Meantime B4NO boarding will have the overflows of non covid B service. does this make sense? --JMojica 11:18, 2020 October 26 (CDT) chances are any answer to this will really be more general and therefore in Definition_of_a_Medicine_Service_admission#Inclusion_of_some_pt_not_attended_by_Internal_Medicine_Attendings. Can we just say follow the instructions there? Or is the inclusion from COVID units legitimately different? Ttenbergen 12:31, 2020 October 29 (CDT) whatever is the definition of the medicine service admission must be followed the same way in the COVID units. until we hear from Allan for any changes. --JMojica 16:06, 2020 October 29 (CDT)

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Which laptops will they be collected on?

They will be collected on the laptops assigned as per PatientFollow Project.

How will they be entered on the laptops

See Boarding Loc

What to enter for Pre-admit Inpatient Institution Previous Location / Dispo for patients from/to Covid units

• Just enter the generic <site>_<program> (e.g. HSC_Med)

Background

Physical locations of COVID isolation, cohorting and expansion keep changing. Every change we make to Service/Location causes extra disruption to collection, documentation, training, vacation coverage hand-over and data processing steps so we needed a flexible method that doesn't require decisions and changes every time locations are opened, closed or moved.

We will start to treat COVID and other contingency locations like any other Boarding Loc.