SNOMED CT - admission, discharge, transfer terms
Introduction
Admission (to health care facility)
Transfer (of care of subject to other provider)
Discharge (aka 'Dismissal'; transfer to GP or other non-acute HCP)
SNOMED CT (2009 edition) includes numerous terms to do with discharge, falling under procedure and finding hierarchies. These appear to be the original READ codes (+/- later modifications post-integration with SNOMED?). A summarised view is as follows:
- Administrative procedure (procedure)
- Patient discharge (procedure)
- Discharge by person (procedure)
- Patient discharge, deceased, donation of body (procedure)
- Patient discharge, deceased, no autopsy (procedure)
- Discharge by health worker (procedure)
- Discharge by physician (procedure)
- ~40 children (medical specialties)
- Discharge by counsellor (procedure)
- 4 children (types of counsellor)
- Discharge by nurse (procedure)
- 8 children (types of nurse)
- ...
- Discharge by physician (procedure)
- Discharge from establishment (procedure)
- Discharge from hospice (procedure)
- Discharge from hospital (procedure)
- Discharge from ward (procedure)
- ....
- Discharge to establishment (procedure)
- Discharge home (procedure)
- Discharge to residential home (procedure)
- Discharge to nursing home (procedure)
- Discharge to ward (procedure)
- Discharge to hospital (procedure)
- ...
- Patient on pass (procedure)
- ...
- Discharge by person (procedure)
- Patient discharge (procedure)
- Clinical finding (finding)
- Administrative statuses (finding)
- Admission statuses (finding)
- Patient encounter status (finding)
- Transfer status (finding)
- ~40 other status types
- Discharge status (finding)
- Discharged from hospital (finding)
- Discharged from inpatient care (finding)
- Patient discharged alive (finding)
- Discharged from care of diabetes specialist nurse (finding)
- Ready for discharge (finding)
- ~10 more types of discharge status
- Administrative statuses (finding)