Occupancy Characteristic (Canada) (SAP Library

Occupancy Characteristic (Canada)

Definition

Assignment of a patient admitted to the inpatient area to a bed specialty that can be different from the physician specialty and from the specialty of the nursing organizational unit.

Example

In Quebec, the specialty type is defined as an occupancy characteristic, for example secteur d’excellence Cardiologie.

Use

You can use the occupancy characteristic to

Classify movements

You can use the occupancy characteristic to classify movements. It thus provides another means of planning care unit occupancy. To do this, specify the occupancy characteristic for each movement of the case. The field is available to you in the following functions:

Inpatient Admission: Admission Data
Inpatient Quick Admission: Admission Data
Enjoy Admission, Organizational Assignment group box
Inpatient Transfer: Transfer Data
Assign Bed Location in the Clinical Work Station
Change Bed Location in the Clinical Work Station
Case Absence – Data Screen (the system sets the occupancy characteristic in the background; it does not appear on the screen)
Case List

Store planned figures for each incidence
Create statistical analyses in which you can compare planned and actual figures.

To maintain the statistical figures, on SAP Easy Access screen, choose Hospital ® Basic Data Administration ® Hospital Structure ® Organizational Structure ® Statistical Occupancy Characteristic ® Maintain or Display.

Note

This function is only available on the SAP Easy Access screen in the country version Canada. This means that after choosing System ® Profile ® Own Data, you must have specified the menu SISHCA on the Parameters tab page.

Improve the planning of inpatient movements at movement level

Assigning case movements to an occupancy characteristics leads to the possibility of occupancy planning per bed specialty and occupancy statistics. For example, an occupancy characteristic can have a quota, which is the minimum number of patients that should be assigned to it in order to meet government requirements.

You can freely define the values of the occupancy characteristic. The occupancy characteristic key can be up to 8 characters and the text up to 120 characters in length.

See also:

For information about defining occupancy characteristics, see the section entitled SAP Healthcare – Industry-Specific Components for Hospitals ® Hospital Basic Data ® Hospital Structure ® Organizational Structure ® CA: Define Occupancy Characteristics in the IS-H Implementation Guide.

For information about displaying the occupancy characteristic field, see the section entitled entitled SAP Healthcare – Industry-Specific Components for Hospitals ® Basic Settings ® Screen Control ® Display Country-Specific Screen Modification in the IS-H Implementation Guide.

For information about the occupancy characteristic as a view type in the Clinical Work Station, see View Type Occupancy Characteristic (Canada).