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Locations MC&IC and IC&MC #58

Open T3hlo opened 2 years ago

T3hlo commented 2 years ago

There are four different locations in the admission table as stated in the wiki they are as follows: the department the patient has been admitted to, either IC, MC or both (IC&MC or MC&IC)

I have two question about these locations:

My first question is does the order of the ward acronyms indicate the patients journey. E.g. did a IC&MC move from an IC ward to an MC ward or are they interchangeble?

I have noticed that the combined locations (IC&MC or MC&IC) are a newer location description the admission to these wards have increased after 2010 see the admission counts by ward and year below.

Screenshot from 2022-03-28 14-30-15

So the second question is are these physically new wards that were added to the hospital at some point?

patrickthoral commented 2 years ago

You are correct that MC&IC means that the patient started on the Medium Care unit. The Medium Care unit initially did not use the electronic system of the ICU (MetaVision), so that explains why that information is not available for all patients in the period from 2003-2009.