Visits to temporary locations

This refers to how to handle when a patient is sent to a temporary location
- Temporary locations includes OR, procedure suites of all types, imaging suites/radiology, etc.
  - They do NOT include beds that are actually functioning in the nature of a ward or ICU bed -- i.e. Boarding Locations
There are 3 situations handled differently in these cases:
1. The patient returns to the sending unit: Here everything (procedures and diagnoses) that happened in the temporary location is coded in the record of the sending site. So, do not discharge and readmit the patient, collect as a continuous stay.
2. The patient does not return to the sending unit but survives it and goes elsewhere after the procedure: Here the Dispo for the sending site is the temporary location (and the Dispo DtTm is when the patient left the sending unit) and things that happened in that temporary location are NOT included in the record of the sending site
3. The patient dies in the temporary site. In this case the Dispo of the sending site is the death (and the Dispo DtTm is as usual for Deceased patients) and you should code the other diagnoses or procedures that occurred in the temporary site.

	I have a patient who went from the ward to the endo suite, code blue in endo and then direct to OR, according to these instructions my dispo dt/tm is to the endo suite, but we do not have an option for this in our dispo dropdown, should I use HSC_OR or should we create an option for endo suite? If I use OR then I include everything that happened in the endo suite? Lisa Kaita 10:07, 2022 January 19 (CST)

	I just found a mention from a task meeting around 2022-02-03 to "add “HSC Procedure Area NOS”, “GRA Procedure Area NOS”, “STB Procedure Area NOS” to s_dispo table so it can be entered in Previous Location and Dispo". I don't remember what that was about. The options were not added yet. There is an option "Other Procedure Location" - would that not do? Ttenbergen 12:21, 2022 March 24 (CDT)

temporary locations between initial ER and first admission to one of our units =

A few Boarding Loc entries have shown up for the Cath Lab. They probably should not have been entered at all, but they raised the question of how to calculate ER Delay when this happens. See ER_Delay#ER_Delay_when_there_are_Visits_to_temporary_locations_between_initial_ER_and_first_unit for more.