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What if EMIP patient doesn't come to medicine ward (making them no longer EMIP) but deteriorates and is admitted to ICU? Do you collect these as EMIPs? Do you omit them from collection? Discussed with Trish but we did not know what collectors do with these.
What if EMIP patient doesn't come to medicine ward (making them no longer EMIP) but deteriorates and is admitted to ICU? Do you collect these as EMIPs? Do you omit them from collection? Discussed with Trish but we did not know what collectors do with these.
The answer to this will also define whether or not "***_EMIP" needs to be available as in [[Previous Location field]]. Ttenbergen 17:34, 2016 May 9 (CDT)
The answer to this will also define whether or not "***_EMIP" needs to be available as in [[Previous Location field]]. Ttenbergen 17:34, 2016 May 9 (CDT)
*EMIPs are by definition Emergency Medicine Inpatients and never leave the Emergency Department until discharge. Their entire LOS is in the ER. They are not entered into the database until they have been discharged.  If they are moved to any other unit, they are no longer EMIPs but are entered into the database for Medicine or ICU as appropriate.


== Locations ==
== Locations ==

Revision as of 21:02, 2016 May 9

EMIP stands for Emergency Medicine "IN" patient and is used as a location in the Medicine database. It is used to as location for patients who are admitted to the medicine service and spend their entire hospital admission in the ER (emergency department) while under the care of Medicine Service attending physician. This sort of thing happens at the Victoria General Hospital and the Grace General Hospital

Serial numbers used

Patients in EMIP have their own serial numbers starting at number 1.

EMIP --> ICU

Template:Discussion What if EMIP patient doesn't come to medicine ward (making them no longer EMIP) but deteriorates and is admitted to ICU? Do you collect these as EMIPs? Do you omit them from collection? Discussed with Trish but we did not know what collectors do with these. The answer to this will also define whether or not "***_EMIP" needs to be available as in Previous Location field. Ttenbergen 17:34, 2016 May 9 (CDT)

  • EMIPs are by definition Emergency Medicine Inpatients and never leave the Emergency Department until discharge. Their entire LOS is in the ER. They are not entered into the database until they have been discharged. If they are moved to any other unit, they are no longer EMIPs but are entered into the database for Medicine or ICU as appropriate.

Locations

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