ECIP
Not currently being collected
Emergency Critical Care InPatient.
We keep discussing whether EMIP like patients should be collected in Critical Care. Consensus is that they are rare, but for consistency it would be good if we caught them.
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Should we start to collect data on Emergency Critical Care InPatients (ECIPs)? And same for CAUs? For consistency etc? There should not be many. |
Email from Trish 2016-11-10:
- Main office should take this to TASK meeting. ICU patient entire LOS in ER before being sent to another ICU at another site or to another Physician Service.
- I know we are all keen are having data to see what patient flow is and if there are ICU patient under ICU attending but they stay in ER before they go to another ICU because not bed in own ICU or other reasons, then should we capture these? Really not physically in own ICU, but is in ER occupying bed under an ICU attending?
- Now that we have the ERP Reports, we can find things like this however, we need to discuss if value to ICU database to include. I know everyone is interested in patient flow and I was previously told that there is not that much delay when ICU attending accept patient, then when they are transferred to ICU. But there are a number we have seeing that sit it ER under ICU attending in one center then go from that ER to another site ICU.
CAU
{discussion}} We may need to consider patients who are in the Clinical Assessment Units for inclusion in ECIP/EMIP.