Class: Patient_arrival

Description of: Patient_arrival

Class steward is Patient Administration
The arrival of a patient at the location of care for a patient encounter.

Attribute definitions for: Patient_arrival

acuity_level_cd

A code depiciting the acuity (complexity of patient care, resource intensiveness of the patient care) of a patient's medical condition upon arrival. Values may be derived from formal acuity coding schemes such as RBS.

Rationale: Clarification/correction of definition

OpenIssue: PAFM and PC must work together on defining the concept of severity in the model.

arrival_dttm

The date and time of the patient's arrival at the location of care.

arrival_type_cd

A code classifying the types of patient arrivals.

medical_service_id

A unique identifier assigned to the medical service anticipated in the patient encounter.

mode_cd

A code depicting the mode of arrival of the patient at the location of care (e.g. car, walk, ambulance).

Rationale: Clarification of definition

source_of_arrival_cd

A code depicting the source of arrival.

Association definitions for: Patient_arrival

precedes (1,1) :: Patient_encounter :: is_preceded_by (0,1)