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 ''This page is about the change of the [[Service/Location]] to [[Boarding Loc]] and [[Service tmp entry]]. For the change in collection start time that happened around the same time, see [[Change to start collection at accept rather than arrive time]].
This page contains info about the change of multiple [[Service/Location]] options per site for the medicine collectors to a single <site>_Med entry ([[GRA_Med]], [[HSC_Med]], [[STB_Med]]), with additional details being stored in [[Boarding Loc]], [[Service tmp entry]] and [[Transfer Ready DtTm tmp entry]]. 

== The change ==
For reasons in [[#Background]] we are breaking down the [[Service/Location]] details into three separate entries instead; see those pages for details: 
* [[Boarding Loc]] for the physical location 
* [[Service tmp entry]] to track the service covering a patient
* [[Transfer Ready DtTm tmp entry]] since there might now be more than one change of

For any new records, enter the new, generic value for your site and program as [[Service/Location]]: [[GRA_Med]], [[GRA_CC]], [[HSC_Med]], [[HSC_MICU]], [[HSC_SICU]], [[HSC_IICU]], [[STB_Med]], [[STB_MICU]], [[STB_ACCU]], [[STB_ICCS]].

For any records you have already started, continue to use the same [[Service/Location]] you started with; if you run into trouble or inconsistencies with that, you can change it to the new generic [[Service/Location]]. 

[[Pre-admit Inpatient Institution]], [[Previous Location]] and [[Dispo]] entries will also use ..._Med / ..._CC now. 

=== [[STB_CC#Decision to not combine collection of STB CC on one laptop]] ===

=== Implementation dates ===
See [[PatientFollow_Project#Transition_dates]] since they are the same, don't list details here.

== Loose ends ==
[[Collection location documentation]]

== Background ==
[[PatientFollow Project]] and frequent changes due to [[:Category:2020 COVID unit transition |COVID unit changes]] (specifically [[2020-10 COVID unit collection]]) brought forward the limitations of our old [[Service/Location]] concept: it mixes multiple concepts of service and location, and has other curve balls like [[EMIP]] / [[2020-10 EMIP changes]] / [[Parked in ER tmp entry]] . We needed a better way to encode this, but still needed an entry for the [[Service/Location]] field.

=== Prior state ===
Collectors would enter a [[Service/Location]] that combined the concept of which service takes care of a patient, and where they were physically located. Any physical moves would be entered as [[Boarding Loc]], but be not very specific. A new record would be made if a patient moved to a new ward/service, with strange exceptions such as [[EMIP]]. There could be only one [[Transfer Ready DtTm]] per record (which would usually mean per unit stay).

== Related articles == 
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