Admit Diagnosis

Admit diagnoses are what led to the patient's admission.

For other diagnoses, see Comorbid Diagnosis and Acquired Diagnosis / Complication.

The most responsible reason why the patient was admitted to your unit should given the highest priority on the PDA and in Access. In other words, for the admit diagnosis, the "worst" problem is first. This results in it being put into "slot one" in TMSX.

Admit Diagnoses are stored in L_Dxs on the PDA and in the CCMDB.mdb.

Number of Admit Diagnoses

The PDA and the CCMDB.mdb can record any number of admit diagnoses. However, only the six (6) with the highest priority will be appended to TMSX. 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.