We consider a hospice patient who is discharged to hospice alive because they survived the hosptial stay.
Cathy Stewart RN, BSN, CCRN Clinical Research Nurse Quality Benchmarking & External Reporting St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor Phone: 734-712-1364 FAX: 734-712-7099 [email protected] This is a confidential professional/peer review and quality improvement document of Saint Joseph Mercy Health System and the Trinity Health system of providers. It is protected from disclosure pursuant to the provisions of MCL 333.20175, 333.21513, MCL 333.21515, MCL 333.16222, MCL 331.531, MCL 331.533, MCL 330.1748, MCL 330.1143a, and other state laws as well as the Federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, 42 U.S.C. 299b-21-b-26 and other federal laws. Unauthorized disclosure or duplication is absolutely prohibited. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of DanaMarie Smith [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 9:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Hospice Patients Hi Everyone, I have a question and I want to know what everyone's practice is on the subject. When I am doing chart abstract and reviews on our severe sepsis patients I come across patients who get discharged to Hospice either home or to inpatient Hospice in our hospital but they aren't admitted anymore and itsd a completely different admission so they are technically discharged from acute care. Then the patients who go to hospice expired. My question is that would you count them on your mortality list or say they survived discharge from acute care setting? Like I said even though there is an inpatient hospice they are completely separated from the hospital admissin and don't even show up on our regular mortality list. I hope I explained this well. Thank You, Dana Dana Marie Moore RN Clinical Data Analyst Quality/Performance Improvement Aria Health Hospital Phone # 215- 612-4888 Fax # 215-612-4463 Let Life Bloom: Sign up to become an organ, eye and tissue donor. This message and any attachments contain information that may be confidential and privileged. If you have received this in error and are not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose this message or its contents to anyone. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete or destroy this message and its attachments. _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
