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{{Reporting Indicators
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| description = petients who are re-admitted to same program
* [[Readmission to MedWard]]
| indicator_name = {{PAGENAME}}
* [[Readmission Rate to ICU]]
| created_raw = Created
| program = Critical Care and Medicine
| indicator_start_date =
| indicator_end_date =
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This article is about [[Multiple Encounter]] patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.
 
{{Discuss | who = Julie | question =
* There must be some clause to exempt someone who just comes from a previous internal unit, right? How is that defined? Wondering whether it will be affected by [[Guideline for coding organ donation after death]].
}}
 
== ICU Definition ==
For ICU, a readmission is a patient where
* (admit date/time) - (most recent ICU discharge date/time to ward or home) <= 48 hours
* is '''not''' an Apache type elective surgery
* might be readmitted from Ward within or outside Winnipeg hospitals or home or nursing home
** can also specify to include only from any ward within the region.
 
== Medicine Definition ==
For medicine, a readmission is a patient where
* (admit date/time) - (most recent discharge date/time to the hospital) <= 7 days after their most recent discharge time to the hospital
* is admitted from outside hospital
=== Legacy information ===
* ''(Legacy: planned surgery used to be excluded, but this stopped because of insufficient data when we stopped collecting some APACHE elements in the medicine program Dec 31, 2006)''
 
== Data Use ==
Use in  [[:Category:Reporting]]  
* [[Quarterly report]]
* [[Annual report]]


They are a case of [[Multiple Encounter]].
 
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