EMIP

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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

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) Template:Discussion 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 are 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 definition 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

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.

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