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Change History |
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Subject: To improve the grammar and layout of the Term 'Day Case' | |
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Subject: Changes to the definitions of Day Case, Bed, Out Patient Attendance, Out Patient Discharge and Date Decided to Admit |
Patients who are admitted electively during the course of a day for treatment or care, which will not require an overnight stay in hospital and return home as scheduled. If this original intention is not fulfilled and the patient stays overnight, such patients should be then counted as ordinary inpatient admissions.
For an episode to qualify as a day case the following criteria must apply:
a) The episode must be an elective one i.e. ADMISSION METHOD must be 11, 12 or 13.
b) Not an overnight stay with intended management code (2)
c) Treatment is supervised by a medical practitioner
In addition one of the following must also apply
a) Use of a BED for recovery purposes that is, as a result of the patient condition, or following sedation or general anaesthesia.
b) Minor Surgical Procedure – these are procedures, which are defined as the following:
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Invasive – that is the introduction of an instrument or device that is not a needle, into the body or a body cavity |
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Therapeutic endoscopic – the introduction of a scope into the body or body cavity for therapeutic treatment |
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An extracorporeal operations – shock wave treatment i.e. lithotripsy and as defined in the OPCS Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures, Fourth revision |