April 19, 2024

A woman was with her husband going to radiology at our acute care facility and tripped falling from standing while hurrying to the appointment. Does this patient meet inclusion as the patient wasn’t being cared for yet and wasn’t deemed a patient in our acute care facility at the time of the fall or does the patient become a rule out based on the injury that happened on the campus of our acute care facility based on page 16 of the guidelines?

This patient would meet inclusion criteria as along as she meets the other qualifiers as well (diagnosis, length of stay…etc.) Your thinking is correct that the patient was not in active care.

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