Parked in ER

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

related concepts

• Dispo_field#Discharge_to_ER
• Boarding Loc
• Category:Overflow
• EMIP
• ECIP

Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)

none found

Legacy info

This used to be collected as Parked in ER tmp entry, and prior to that as <hosp> - ER (parked) entries in s_dispo table. Changed as of PatientFollow_Project#Transition_dates .