Parked in ER
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A patient is considered parked in ER if they are a direct admit who gets stuck in the ER.
Collection Instruction
Collection follows regular instructions for the related fields.
Data use / Reporting
inter facility transfers report (semi annual and Fiscal year) given to Critical Care Admin Director and Quality Officer.
- Patient Flow - where patient were have been admitted FROM
How is it used?
- To distinguish the reason of transfer due to bed management reason
- To distinguish the reason of transfer due Medical Necessity reason
- To determine the flow of patients from teaching hospital to teaching hospital, teaching to community, community to teaching, community to community, from outside city/province facility to regional hospital.
Data to be Reported
- for Inpatient direct admit
- Site Ward via ED
- Site ICU via ED
- For Non Inpatient direct Admit (e.g. Emergency, Ambulatory Clinic, PCH, Home, Nursing Station)
- Site Emergency via ED
- Site Ambulatory via ED
- PCH via ED
- Home via ED
- Nursing Station via ED
Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)
none found
Legacy info
- 2020-12-15 - finally inactivated S dispo table *(parked) entries
- 2020-10-18 - "Previous Location field" page edit removed the exception instruction for parked in ER
- 2020-Oct - Changed as of PatientFollow_Project, see Service tmp entry#Direct Admissions/Transfers
- 2020-02-12 - decision to do away with this concept because of its many problems
- 2017-12-07 changed the ER (Direct) to ER (Parked) (this would not affect data since it's actually stored as an ID)
- 2017-10-12 <hosp> - ER (parked) entries documented in "Parked in ER tmp entry" page edit
- 2017-10-10 added Parked in ER tmp entry
- 2016-07-01 - replaced by Off ward field = P
- at beginning of documentation ICU Var 4 - Parked in ER