Augmented Care Period is a ACTIVITY GROUP.
A period of time within a Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) during which a PATIENT requires close observation and intervention by additional, specially trained staff using medical equipment not routinely available on general hospital wards.
Excluded from this is care provided to neonates, which is recorded elsewhere. Also excluded from this is care provided on general wards, A&E, Radiology Departments, labour wards and special care baby units.
A PATIENT may receive both intensive and high dependency levels of care within one Augmented Care Period. For intensive care levels of care only the NUMBER OF ORGAN SYSTEMS SUPPORTED must be recorded.
An Augmented Care Period must have only one AUGMENTED CARE LOCATION CODE; if the location changes a new Augmented Care Period begins.
If the responsibility for the PATIENT's Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) transfers from one CONSULTANT to another while the PATIENT is receiving augmented care, the Augmented Care Period ends and another one starts under the new Augmented Care Period.
The CONSULTANT clinically managing the PATIENT during the Augmented Care Period is not necessarily the same as the CONSULTANT responsible for the Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider). The MAIN SPECIALTY of the CONSULTANT clinically managing the PATIENT during the Augmented Care Period should be recorded.
In the event of multiple specialty involvement in an Augmented Care Period where no single specialty is identified as being responsible the MAIN SPECIALTY of the CONSULTANT admitting the PATIENT to the Augmented Care Period is recorded.
Within an Augmented Care Period, where a PATIENT is cared for by a team of specialists within an intensive care rota the MAIN SPECIALTY of the clinical director of the team is recorded.
An Augmented Care Period does not include the following:
a. Surgical and anaesthetic intra-operative care
b. Post-operative care within an operating department
c. Cardiac (coronary) care
d. Imaging procedures
e. Endoscopy procedures
Information recorded for an Augmented Care Period includes:
AUGMENTED CARE LOCATION
AUGMENTED CARE OUTCOME INDICATOR
AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD DISPOSAL O
AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD SOURCE
AUGMENTED CARE PLANNED INDICATOR
End Date O
HIGH DEPENDENCY CARE LEVEL DAYS O
INTENSIVE CARE LEVEL DAYS
NUMBER OF ORGAN SYSTEMS SUPPORTED O (for Intensive Care level only)
Start Date
This object was Used by the following when it was retired:
| Class | MAIN SPECIALTY |
| WebPage | Start Date |
| DataElement | END DATE (AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD) |
| DataElement | START DATE (AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD) |
| DataElement | AUGMENTED CARE LOCATION |
| Attribute | AUGMENTED CARE OUTCOME INDICATOR |
| Attribute | AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD DISPOSAL |
| Class | PATIENT |
| Attribute | AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD SOURCE |
| Attribute | HIGH DEPENDENCY CARE LEVEL DAYS |
| WebPage | Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) |
| WebPage | Radiology Department |
| Attribute | AUGMENTED CARE PLANNED INDICATOR |
| Class | CONSULTANT |
| WebPage | End Date |
| Attribute | INTENSIVE CARE LEVEL DAYS |
| DataElement | NUMBER OF AUGMENTED CARE PERIODS WITHIN EPISODE |
| DataElement | AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD NUMBER |
| Attribute | AUGMENTED CARE LOCATION CODE |
| Attribute | NUMBER OF ORGAN SYSTEMS SUPPORTED |
| Class | ACTIVITY GROUP |
| DataElement | MAIN SPECIALTY CODE (AUGMENTED CARE PERIOD) |
This supporting information is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
|---|---|
| plural | Augmented Care Periods |