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Criteria-Based Library patterns can use admit reasons. You can assign admit reasons to DRG patterns (either Standard or Custom), or you can configure a Non-DRG pattern using one or more ICD codes, diagnoses, or admit reasons.
Admit reasons are facility-specific. Whether you need to configure admit reasons depends on whether your organization sends admit reasons to Patient Progress Manager in the Registration import. The amount of time you spend configuring admit reasons depends on whether your organization uses higher ranking criteria and sends them to Patient Progress Manager. The hierarchy for assigning patterns is DRG, ICD, Diagnosis, and Admit Reason, with the default being location-based pattern assignment.
The Admit Reason Definition Editor page displays admit reasons and their current pattern assignment in alphabetic order; however, you can also sort by any column by clicking the column heading. In addition, you can hide and delete admit reasons. The editor displays hidden admit reasons in strikethrough text: This is strikethrough text.
Patient Progress Manager normally imports admit reasons during the Demand Manager implementation process. This topic covers the steps needed to make any manual adjustments to admit reasons.
Before adding an admit reason, you should make sure it does not already exist in the application.
The page refreshes to display any admit reason containing your search criteria, up to a maximum of 100 entries. If there are more than 100 entries, you will see the message First 100 results returned. Narrow your search and click Go again.
If the search returns no results, you can add the admit reason as described in the following section Adding an Admit Reason.
Complete the following steps to add an admit reason:
Patient Progress Manager does not allow duplicate admit reasons. If your admit reason already exists in the application, Patient Progress Manager highlights the Admit Reason box in red and prompts you to correct the entry.
You can edit the admit reason text if the admit reason is not currently assigned to a Library Pattern; however, you cannot assign an admit reason to a pattern on this page. Instead, you should go to the Configure Progress Patterns page to assign admit reasons to a pattern.
You cannot delete an admit reason if the following conditions apply:
The Delete icon is marked with a red X if an admit reason cannot be deleted.
You should be aware that while an admit reason cannot be deleted, it can be hidden. Hiding an admit reason prevents it from being associated with future patterns. See the following section Hiding an Admit Reason.
If the admit reason does not fall into one of the three preceding categories, and you want to remove the admit reason from the Configure Progress Pattern page available selection tab, you can delete it using the following steps:
in the desired admit reason row. This opens a confirmation pop-up window.When you hide an admit reason, it does not display on available selection tabs on the Configure Progress Pattern page and it prevents the admit reason from being associated with future patterns. You should note, however, that hiding an admit reason does not remove it from a current pattern assigned to a patient. Patient Progress Manager displays hidden admit reasons in strikethrough text.
Deselecting the Hide check box displays the admit reason on the available selection tabs on the Progress Pattern page.
You can click Reset to undo any edits made since you last saved the configuration.
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