EMIP
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 admission under the medicine service in the ER (emergency department). We are tracking this at VIC, GRA, STB.
Collection Instructions
- Service/Location field - your EMIP (e.g. GRA_EMIP)
- Previous Service field - likely emergency medicine, unless some other service accepted them prior to medicine, and was never able to get them out of the ER either, and medicine accepted the patient from them -in order for a pt to be an EMIP they must have been accepted by Medicine for admission otherwise they would just be an Emergency patient
- Accept DtTm field - the time Medicine accepted them, i.e. the time they became an EMIP
- Arrive DtTm field - same as Accept DtTm field
- Previous Location field - use normal instructions
Patients discharged to other locations in hospital
Collection includes patients who are discharged to other locations in the hospital. Should have been like this all along, but the definition said otherwise. Please collect as this going forward, as discussed with Trish and Julie. Ttenbergen 11:18, 2016 May 16 (CDT) {{what other locations do you mean? If the EMIP is admitted to a bed on a Medicine ward, they are no longer EMIP but are captured in the Medicine database; if they are transferred to ICU, they Re no longer EMIP but are captured in the ICU database. If they go to an overflow bed on any other ward but are admitted under Medicine, they will be captured in the Medicine database, and entered as overflow. My understanding of the definitoin of an EMIP is a patient who has been accepted to Medicine but for whatever reason, never makes it to a Medicine ward, but is discharged directly from ER to a location outside the current facility ie home, another acute care facility, expires
Do these happen for ICU?
While these do, in theory, happen in ICU, we will not collect them.
Template:Discussion Collecting them would also be not feasible as long as the "ignore pt who was in ICU for less than 30 minutes" rule is in effect. Where is that documented? Could not find it in Definition of an ICU admission or by search for "30 minutes". Ttenbergen 11:18, 2016 May 16 (CDT)
Locations
VIC EMIP
See VIC_Medicine_Collection_Guide#Identifying_OVER_and_EMIP_patients.
GRA EMIP
- start date: November, 2010
- see GRA_Medicine_Collection_Guide#EMIPs_at_the_Grace for how these are identified at the Grace.
Template:Discussion should all EMIPs be coded as overflow since they spend their entire LOS in the ER not the ward?
STB_EMIP
See STB_Medicine_Collection_Guide#Process_for_identifying_Overflow_and_EMIP_patients
Serial numbers used
Patients in EMIP have their own serial numbers starting at number 1.