Definition of a Medicine Laptop Admission: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:27, 2009 March 11

The definition of a "Medicine patient" for the Regional Medicine Database is:

admitted under a Medicine service attending physician. If patient doesn't meet this definition then we don't collect data and enter into the Medicine database.

there are circumstances where other services "borrow" a Medicine bed for procedures or monitoring or testing but patient is not admitted under Medicine attending.

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From: Gail Hall

Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:41 PM
To: Trish OstryzniukCc: Sheila Tagesen
Subject: High Observation Short stay patients
We have recently began to except neuro patients into the high observation unit for a short stay from other facilities.They are being assessed by neuro and may be receiving diagnostic testing or procedures.It appeared that the patient we got last week was cared for by the high observation nurses.Vital signs and assessments were done. My question is do I count these "short stays" in my data? If so could I code the patient type as short stay or neuro short stay instead of medicine? At this point it is hard to say how many patients of this type we will get.If I code them and tag them we would be able to answer that question in the future. Can you please ask Dan Roberts if he wants data collection of these Neuro admits to H4H lots for stroke patients. These short stay patients are neurology patients waiting for assessment and consultation but not under medicine service attending Dr. Thanks, Gail Hall R.NData Collector for H4/H4H(HOBS)

From: Trish Ostryzniuk

Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:59 PM
To: Dan Roberts
Subject: RE: High Observation Short stay patients
I understand that you had approved allowing H4H to be used for neuro patient’s who come from other centers to be assessed by neuro service in High OBS? Apparently these patients aren’t even admitted to the HSC when in high OBS while waiting for assessment. Do you want these patient include in the medicine database? Thanks

- Please label them as short stay category. So include them. Dan Roberts.-- TOstryzniuk 14:27, 11 March 2009 (CDT)

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 **no reply to date[[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 15:55, 29 December 2008 (CST)
+*From: Dan Roberts
-* If the original definition came from Dr. Roberts, it would seem to address this: the patient is not admitted under medicine and should not be collected. Under what circumstances do we ask for clarification when the definition gives an answer but may have been designed around circumstances that are no longer true? I am asking this because it seems to apply to many of the questions that come up.[[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 14:15, 11 February 2009 (CST)
+*Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:34 AM
+*Subject: RE: High Observation Short stay patients.
+**Please label them as short stay category. So include them. Dan Roberts.-- [[User:TOstryzniuk|TOstryzniuk]] 14:27, 11 March 2009 (CDT)