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This article is about [[Multiple Encounter]] patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.  
This article is about [[Multiple Encounter]] patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.  
 
  Exclusions for readmissions are the following:
{{Discuss | who = Julie | question =
* There is a planned admission like elective surgery
* 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]].
* Left the ward or unit against medical advice (AMA)
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* Palliative patients
 
* HSC IICU has no readmission
== ICU Definition ==
== ICU Definition ==
For ICU, a readmission is a patient where
For ICU, a readmission is a patient where

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petients who are re-admitted to same program

Indicators
Indicator: Readmission
Created/Raw: Created
Program: Critical Care and Medicine
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End Date:
Reports: No reports on this wiki list this as an indicator.


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This article is about Multiple Encounter patients who have been discharged and re-admitted in a short time frame.

 Exclusions for readmissions are the following:
  • There is a planned admission like elective surgery
  • Left the ward or unit against medical advice (AMA)
  • Palliative patients
  • HSC IICU has no readmission

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

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