Emergency Department Encounters

This page details the unique functionality for Emergency Department encounters in Clinical Analytics. You may also be interested in the Emergency Department Grouping Types or Emergency Department Measures unique to this Patient Type.

Profile Types

To create an ED-specific profile, select the profile type called “Internal Encounters – Emergency Department” from the Profile Type drop-down menu.

Profile Filters

Additional profiles filters have been added for ED outpatient profiles that include Service Location Type, Service Location, Principal APC, Principal CPT, and ED Physician.

Details

Additional columns for grouping by and filtering on include:

• ED Physician information (name, ID, specialty, department)
• Principal & Secondary CPT code
• Principal & Secondary APC codes
• ED Acuity Level

Clinical Case Summary

Demographics Tab

The Demographics section of the outpatient Clinical Case Summary includes different views based on the patient type. For ED encounters, you can see:

• Whether the patient was admitted as an inpatient (yes/no)
• Return to ED
• ED Physician
• Service Day of the Week
• Service Location
• ED Throughput Times
• Patient Type

DRGs, Diagnosis, and Procedures

This tab also displays the APC grouping(s) that the patient’s case fell under.

CPT

The CPT tab includes a table with CPT code information, including detailed information such as time of service, place of service, charge and cost information.

Detail Services

The Detail Service tab has been reformatted for quicker information lookup and ease of access to information. This tab also has new features, including the ability to roll up data to the CDM level.

Utilization

This section is omitted for outpatient encounters.

Quality and Safety, Patient Satisfaction

Only measures that are applicable for ED encounters will display.