Acquired Diagnosis / Complication

Significant problems, complication & surgical and diagnostic procedures that occur after ward admission. Acquired diagnosis do no refer to diagnosis that have been made after the patient comes to ward, if it is likely that the patient was admitted to ward with the problem in the first place but it took a few days to figure the problem out. Please see diagnostic coding index for Significant Acquireds diagnosis list.

Acquired Diagnoses / Complications are stored in L_Dxs on the PDA and in the CCMDB.mdb.

Number of Acquired Diagnoses / Complications

The PDA and the CCMDB.mdb can record any number of Acquired Diagnoses / Complications. However, only the nine with the highest priority will be appended to Ed's program.

So, you can track as many diagnoses as you want as you go along, and then delete or re-prioritize to only send the most relevant.

Discussion

• was the significant acquireds list ever generated? If so, do we have any filter for it in Access or on the PDA? Ttenbergen 00:21, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
• I seem to remember these are in order of occurrence... don't see it anywhere. If true, that needs to be added. Ttenbergen 00:21, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
• we changed the name to only one of acquired or complication. Which is it? We need to change references in this article accordingly. Ttenbergen 00:29, 28 May 2008 (CDT)