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ED/HOSPITAL ARRIVAL DATE
08-Jan-2009
Emergency Department Information
Definition
The date the patient arrived to the ED/hospital.
Additional Information
- If the patient was brought to the ED, enter date patient arrived at ED. If patient was directly admitted to the hospital, enter date patient was admitted to the hospital.
- Collected as YYYY-MM-DD.
- Used to auto-generate two additional calculated fields: Total EMS Time: (elapsed time from EMS dispatch to hospital arrival) and Total Length of Hospital Stay (elapsed time from ED/Hospital Arrival to ED/Hospital Discharge).
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