Canterbury DHB shorter stays in the ED and use of ED observation unit
Health Sector Workers Network made this Official Information request to Canterbury District Health Board
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From: Health Sector Workers Network
Dear Canterbury District Health Board,
Kia ora
Health Sector Workers Network is asking your DHB to provide information to the following questions:
1. What are the percentages of patients presenting to the Emergency Departments that were admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours of presentation for each month of the year July 2016 to June 2017?
2. Please provide any DHB policy concerning guidelines and use of the ED observation unit? By “ED observation unit”, we are referring to the usage defined by the Ministry Of Health in the paper Streaming and the use of Emergency Department Observation Units and Inpatient Assessment Units.
3. What percentage of total ED presentations for each month of the year July 2016 to June 2017 utilised the ED Observation unit?
4. What percentage of patients utilising the ED observation unit were discharged home from this location for each month of the year July 2016 to June 2017?
5. What is your DHB’s expected length of stay for the patients utilising the ED observation unit?
6. What percentage of patients for each month of the year July 2016 to June 2017 exceeding the length of stay given in question 5?
Yours faithfully,
Health Sector Workers Network
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Project Facilitator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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From: Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board
Dear Health Sector Workers Network
Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act
request.
Kind regards
Kathleen Smitheram
Canterbury District Health Board and West Coast District Health Board
Project Facilitator, Planning and Funding
Level 2, 32 Oxford Terrace
PO Box 1600
Christchurch 8140
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