Term: Service Codes

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2012-04-20

Definition:

A numeric field identifying the hospital service(s) that the patient received while in hospital. A list of patient service codes are available in either Appendix E of the Hospital Abstract User Manual (HAUM) documentation or in the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) Abstracting documentation.

Related concepts 

• Hospital Service Codes
• Identifying Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Episodes in the Hospital Abstracts Data

Related terms 

• Acute Admissions
• Assessment for Personal Care Home (PCH) Placement
• Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
• Good Coding Hospitals
• Hospital Abstract Users Manual (HAUM) Data
• Long Term Care (LTC)
• Long Term Care (LTC) Hospitals
• Medical Days
• Medical Patient
• Palliative Service Type
• Poor Coding Hospitals
• Primary Service Code
• Rehabilitation
• Service Transfer Code
• Service Type - In Hospital
• Surgical Days

References 

• De Coster C, Peterson S, Kasian P. Alternatives to Acute Care . Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health and Evaluation, 1996. [Report] [Summary] (View)

Term used in 

• Fransoo R, Martens P, The Need to Know Team, Prior H, Burchill C, Koseva I, Rajotte L. Who is in our Hospitals.and why? Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2013. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Garland A, Fransoo R, Olafson K, Ramsey C, Yogendran M, Chateau D, McGowan K. The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Heaman M, Kingston D, Helewa M, Brownell M, Derksen S, Bogdanovic B, McGowan K, Bailly A. Perinatal Services and Outcomes in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] (View)