Term: Out of Hospital (OOH)

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2013-10-04

Definition:

A flag used to indicate an intervention that was performed in an outpatient basis of one hospital while a patient is currently admitted as an inpatient in another hospital. For example, a patient currently admitted to a Small Rural hospital may require an intervention that is only performed in Tertiary hospitals, so the patient will be transported to a Tertiary hospital, undergo surgery, and then once stable be transported back to the original hospital for convalescence and continued care. This type of hospital episode will produce two hospital abstracts: an inpatient abstract for the admitting hospital, and an outpatient abstract for the hospital where the intervention was performed. The intervention (procedure) will be flagged as OOH on the inpatient abstract.

Related terms 

• Convalescence
• Hospital Abstract
• Hospital Types
• Inpatient
• Outpatient
• Tertiary Hospital / Tertiary Care Hospital

References 

• 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)