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September 30, 2022

Patient comes in to the ED and gets admitted to Med/Surg and then has an unplanned admission/transfer to the ICU.  This case is odd cause the patient ultimately got discharged home in 22 hours.  I’d like to confirm it doesn’t matter if they go directly from the ED to the ICU – it is any stop in the ICU that would make them PTOS appropriate. Is that correct?

That’s correct, any time in ICU (plus a qualifying diagnosis) is PTOS. Assuming your patient has a diagnosis, they would be picked up as PTOS.

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