Discharged to community

Just a placeholder for now because the idea of how we define dispo to community (or for that matter, re-admit Previous Location) in data came up re. things like Readmission to MedWard and others. We have the obvious "Home" but if someone is discharged to something like Dialysis, would that also count? How do we define? Ideally by a column in s_dispo table such as s_dispo.loc_type, but that one uses "non-patient" which it also uses for Deceased patients (should we just split that out?). There is probably even more to this. Likely Julie has more than one approach in reporting. This came up because we were looking to define this for LAU collection readmission data. This is actually just as much regarding to admitted from community, so maybe this should just be renamed to "outpatient sites in s_dispo table"? This will need to be concistent with the concept of Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field ie they should not overlap, and possibly an entry's inclusion in that (ie s_dispo.inpatient unchecked) could be a way to define this.

• SMW

• Cargo

• Categories

This will be even more relevant to keep track off with the recent changes to Dispo to add TRSF etc; but even aside from that, would we want to include such a thing as a discharge to odd S dispo.loc types:

• ambulatory care: 60
• ER: 61
• hospice: 102
• Nursing Station: 15 (all ancient since we now code this as "Outside City - unknown/other")
• TCE: 83
• TCU: 582
• UC: 7
• non-patient: 195250

SAS concepts around in-patient/outpatient as in Readmission to MedWard

As per 2025-02-14 email from JM

tolocation in ('Home','HSC Lennox Bell') OR toloctype in ('hospice','PCH','ambulatory care') OR toregion in ('out-of-WPG','out-of-MB','out-of-CAN') /* left the hospital and went home, long-term care facility, outside city and prov */ ... or or lagFromLocation in ('Home' ) /* next admit from Home */ or lagFromLoctype in ('PCH') /* next admit from nursing home */ ) ... considers if AMA=1 and readm7=1 then readm7=0; /* AMA is excluded to readmission */