Term: Service Transfer Code

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2013-10-04

Definition:

A numeric field identifying additional hospital service(s) that the patient received while in a different patient service in the admitting hospital or services received upon transfer to a different institution (Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 2010).

Related terms 

• Alternate Level of Care (ALC)
• Palliative Service Type
• Service Codes

References 

• Canadian Institute for Health Information. Discharge Abstract Database Abstracting Manual, 2010-2011 Edition. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2010.(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)