ACP Status collection in ICU

see Comfort Care for collection of similar info in Medicine

This article is about collecting the "ACP Status" temp entry.

Coding Instructions

When you enter a new ICU patient two records will be automatically generated in the tmp table:

• ACP Status at admit (ie within first 6 hours of admission) Note: if the pt already has an ACP status in the chart prior to admission to the ICU, this status can be used at admission to the ICU, unless it changes in the first 6 hours in the ICU.
• ACP Status at end (ie at end of stay resp. at death). If the pt has care D/C'ed do not automatically change the ACP to C. Use the last documented ACP on the chart for the end ACP.

Change the ITEM for each of them to the ACP status at that time. Options are as follows

• ACP C - comfort care
• ACP R - full resuscitation
• ACP M+ - all medical care given except cardiac resuscitation; intubation either happened or allowed
• ACP M- - all medical care given except resuscitation and intubation
• ACP n/a - no documented ACP on the chart
  • If you cannot find any mention of ACP on the chart, do not default to ACP-R, put ACP n/a as per above instructions indicate.
  • Also, if the documented ACP is not present in the first 6 hours of admission, use ACP n/a for the admission.(Verified with Kendiss Olafson on August 18, 2015).
• Do not fill Checkbox, dates, numbers, not used for this project

What if ACP-M is documented without +/-?

If ACP M is just written with no qualifiers then one would classify as ACP M-.

WRHA guidelines

See http://www.wrha.mb.ca/acp/files/Workbook.pdf for the WRHA ACP Guidelines.

Start and stop date

• Start Date: 2015-08-10
  • Date with complete data across all sites - Sept 1, 2015
• Stop Date: none

Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks

Before being able to check tmp complete each patient will have to have two entries:

• ACP Status at admit
• ACP Status at end

Enter item "ACP n/a" if nothing is available.

The check will be run at completion time, i.e. this is not one of the tmp checks that get run before each send.

Data use / Reporting and Analysis

• would allow QI team to follow:
  • % of patient with documented ACP during ICU
  • Level of care at both admission and discharge
  • % of patients with change in level of care during ICU
  • Level of care at the time of ICU death

• the data are saved in table L_TmpV2 under project "ACP at admit / ACP at end" of the centralized_data.mdb
• the SAS program that reads the data can be found in X:\Julie\SAS_CFE\CFE_macros\CFE_CC_ACP.sas

RE Patients admitted prior to August 10

I spoke with Julie about this and she said to put in the ACP status on all your patients if it is not too much trouble when you have the charts. If you have finished reviewing charts and they are complete, don’t bother going back to look for the ACP status. There will probably be a week transition period given before she starts gleaning this data to give us time to get used to collecting this information. Hope this helps. Laura