Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field

This field is currently being implemented, please check the instructions and put a discussion for anything that isn't clear. 

The Pre-admit Inpatient Institution field identifies the previous inpatient location of patients who were already inpatients elsewhere before coming to our unit from a temporary location. This does not include patients who just arrived at an ER elsewhere and were not admitted as inpatient there.

Collection Instruction

If the "Previous" location field contains a "temporary" location like an ER, OR or Cath Lab you will need to enter the "Previous Inpatient Location" field. This will be a dropdown that allows an appropriate subset of the contents of s_dispo. Template:Discussion This would mean don't enter for patients from non-temporary locations; do we want it blank for those? Need to finalize detail... Ttenbergen 12:31, 2016 March 21 (CDT)

For each patient,

• enter the option that most closely matches
• if you know the situation but nothing on the list matches closely, enter other - known but not listed
• if the situation is unknown, enter location missing/unknown

If you know the location exactly, you can type it. Otherwise press the "magic wand" button to take you to the S dispo chooser‎ to help filter options if desired.

Where to find this information

If patient came from a different Winnipeg hospital this will be recorded in the “Visit History” on the EPR.

Example

• ICU Vic---family medicine ward at the Vic---ED HSC---ED STB---cath lab---ICU HSC.
  • The PrevInptLocation field is: VIC_Ward

Data Use / Purpose

To document where those patients who were inpatients immediately before arriving on our ward/unit came from.

The detailed information will allow us also to distinguish between patients who were or were not inpatients before arrival. This is relevant to a patient's risk of bad outcomes.

The information will also give our administrators a better idea of which other hospitals are sending us patients, which they will use for planning.

Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks

• Records for all Admit froms in #Temporary locations need to have an entry (possibly "none")
• Records for all Admit froms not in #Temporary locations need to not have an entry

Not yet implemented Ttenbergen 14:11, 2015 May 27 (CDT)

• Template:Discussion do these make sense? (old q from Tina)
  • YES. if these are done, you may delete the ones I wrote above. JMojica 12:31, 2015 May 28 (CDT)

Reports

Template:Discussion Which reports will this be on? Ttenbergen 10:33, 2016 March 22 (CDT)

Implementation

The field is populated with options from the s_dispo table.

Legacy

This field is part of the 2016 Time and Place changes and did not previously exist.