Term | Conceptual definition |
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Patient-facility-day | An individual calendar date that a patient spent in the hospital (sta6a) |
Hospitalization | One or more consecutive acute specialty stays |
Bedded stay | Any stay in a healthcare facility where a patient is provided a bed, including hospital, nursing facility, mental health facility, or domiciliary for homeless Veterans |
Specialty stay | A portion of a bedded stay defined by the treating specialty. Each bedded stay is composed of one or more specialty stays |
Specialty transfer | When patient’s care is transitioned from one treating specialty to another |
Acute specialty stay | A specialty stay that is for an acute medical condition |
Non-acute specialty stay | A specialty stay that is not for an acute medical condition |
Facility laboratory code | Facility-specific code linked to lab test names |
Facility LOINC | Facility-specific code linked to LOINC codes [12] |
Facility laboratory test name | The name used to identify a lab test at a specific site (e.g. white blood cell count, WBC) |
Laboratory test synonyms | Other clinical names for the same laboratory test (e.g. blood gas, carbon dioxide both map to the same lab test) |
Topography | A specific description of an anatomic region of the body where lab specimen was drawn (e.g. arterial blood, plasma, blood, serum) |