Definition of a Medicine Laptop Admission
For Critical Care, see Definition_of_an_ICU_admission
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.
Bed Borrows are not Medicine admissions
There are circumstances where other services "borrow" a Medicine bed for procedures or monitoring or testing but patient is not admitted under Medicine attending. Do not collect these patients.
Discussion - HSC Neurology patients
- On H4H we get a few patients admitted to the high obs from other hospitals for neuro consults. The direction I have been given is to include them in my data if they are there for more than 24 hours. These short stays have occurred infrequently on my ward. We do however have lots of patients who are admitted under neurology and I have been including these as Medicine Admits.
- Has anything been done to implement Dr. Robert's instructions to flag these neurology short stay patients? Or, for that matter, to flag the neurology patients? Now that they are staying longer we might want to review whether he wants to collect them. If we want to implement this, I would suggest doing it as a Category:Special Short Term Projects, and with limited duration and a plan to analyze and act. Ttenbergen 16:38, 11 September 2009 (CDT) Ttenbergen 22:23, 2014 October 6 (CDT)
- How are these patients different from other bed borrows, and does this have any impact on our decision not to collect other bed borrows? Ttenbergen 18:09, 10 September 2009 (CDT) Ttenbergen 22:23, 2014 October 6 (CDT)
- According to the definition of a Medicine pt, a good percentage of H4H pts would be excluded. The Stroke pts that are admitted to the unit are admitted under NEURO attendings not Medicine Atendings. To my understanding we were to included all pts that were admitted to the High Obs unit no matter what service the pt was, because high obs beds were considered to be medicine beds. We have not been instructed to Flag the non medicine ones.--PStein 08:01, 2014 October 7 (CDT)
- flag how? If there is an article on the wiki about this, please link... Ttenbergen 09:52, 2014 October 9 (CDT)
- According to the definition of a Medicine pt, a good percentage of H4H pts would be excluded. The Stroke pts that are admitted to the unit are admitted under NEURO attendings not Medicine Atendings. To my understanding we were to included all pts that were admitted to the High Obs unit no matter what service the pt was, because high obs beds were considered to be medicine beds. We have not been instructed to Flag the non medicine ones.--PStein 08:01, 2014 October 7 (CDT)