We include only inpatients; comfort care/palliative care and DNR patients are included in the population.
Thank you for the discussion, Julie Julie Maykel, RN, BSN Seton Medical Center 1900 Sullivan Avenue Daly City, California 94015 telephone: (650)-991-6366 e-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Downs, Brenda - PHX Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 09:20 AM To: DanaMarie Smith; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Sepsis Groups] Hospice Patients Hi Dana, In our patient population - we exclude these patients from our mortality rate. Brenda Brenda Downs MSN, RN, ACNS-BC Cell- 480-720-6102 Executive Coordinator Linda Messitt 415-438-5748 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DanaMarie Smith Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 6:51 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 _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
