Active Treatment

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• APACHE II – a patient can be classified into two groups either Actively Treated or Monitored.
• the database program has never utilized the information from this field since starting data collection.
• this field is not part of the APACHE II Score nor is it use in the prediction of death formula.
• current data collection defaults active TX to YES for all patients
• To meet the criteria of “active treatment” a patient must have one or more of the active therapies from a list of 27 items (TX therapies -items are available from the TISS). If none of these therapies apply then a patient is considered to be admitted form “monitoring” only.

Legacy Data

• Active treatment (Active Tx) slot in CCMDB.mdb was eliminate from data collection.
• Last patient with AT negative was collected
  • CC 2004/Feb/15 study 4135
  • Med
    • early ones are all "y"
    • first "n" 3374 2004/Nov/23
    • occasional Y, N after that
    • all "N" after 26773 2007/Jan/01
    • except "Y" for 57116 2009/Aug/13
• The field is not being imported into Centralized_data.mdb; if we need to refer back to it we need to look at final exports.