Survive / Expired

Legacy Content

This page contains Legacy Content.

• Explanation: Old way to collect this concept, was moved into Dispo field as part of 2016 Time and Place changes
• Successor: Dispo field

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The Survive / Expired field used to track if a patient survived to be discharged. Options are Survive, Expire.

2016 Time and Place changes

The data in this field will be collected in the Dispo field after the Category: 2016 Time and Place changes. It will have several "died - ..." options.

Data encoding

The field name in Centralized_data.mdb and CCMDB.accdb is R_SurviveExpire.

Legacy Data

This field used to also encode whether a deceased patient had had an Autopsy. These were rolled into the "expire" option. This wass one field in CCMDB.accdb. It wass two fields (survive/expire) and (autopsy) in TMSX and MedTMS. It was implemented as a single field to prevent the combination survive/autopsy.

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