Outstanding Patient Items
When a patient is discharged or sent home after an outpatient visit to the hospital, you can use the Outstanding Patient Items
overview to list and close all services which are not completely documented.
You can call this overview from the views of the clinical work station using Outstanding Patient Items
. You can also call the Outstanding Patient Items in the patient organizer/patient viewer.
This function should be used primarily for medically relevant objects, in order to prepare the patient for administrative discharge. For this reason this function has not been incorporated into the discharge transaction in SAP Patient Management (IS-H), but is a stand-alone function in the clinical system (i.s.h.med) patient and service overviews. You can call the discharge function from the overview of outstanding patient items.
Features
The overview of outstanding patient items is displayed as a tree structure. The first level of the tree structure is divided into two points Not Yet Complete
and Planned
. On the second level there are nodes for diagnoses, services, documents transport orders, appointments and visits. Each of these nodes contains the individual corresponding objects.
The starting point for this overview concerning a patient is a case and a target date for discharge. This target date of discharge is queried every time this function is called. This date is preset with the system date.
Note
Two different organizational unit-related (OU) parameters are used to control the displayed discharge date.
See OU Parameters Outstanding Patient Items
The discharge date is used in the worklists to differentiate bweteen:
Not Yet Complete
All objects (documents, services, etc.) with a date before the target discharge date. Services which have not yet been released can be found under this heading.
Documents that have not yet been completed (released) by this target time are displayed under the
Documents
node. This can be particularly helpful for the findings report for the family physician.Planned
All treatments which are in the future, i.e. after the target discharge date. Post-discharge radiological examinations or visits which are planned, are listed here. This serves mainly as an overview of the course of the patient's further treatment.
Activities
You can edit outstanding items and create the discharge from the overview of outstanding items.
The following functions are available for editing the objects of outstanding items:
Date
(-
)You access the dialog box for changing the discharge date. The overview of outstanding objects is updated.
(Displ./Change Document
):You can view or edit the selected document. If you select several documents, you will access a document list.
Diag
(-
)You access the diagnosis entry function, for example, to enter the missing admission diagnosis.
(Release
)Depending on the selectewd object (document or service) you access the function for releasing the object.
End Cycle
You can end the outstanding cycles.
End Nursing Plan
You can end the nursing plan for the patient.
(Cancel Service/Visit/Document
)You cancel the selected object. The cancellation of an object will also take into account any dependent objects such as, for example, appointments and visits for services. If you cancel the last service, the movement is also canceled.
Discharge
(-
)You can create the discharge for the patient.