DanM wrote:
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/articles/2018-10-18/have-you-really-been-admitted-as-an-inpatient-to-the-hospitalSameStory wrote:
Can you explain what this means? I work in a hospital and don't know what your definition of "observation status" is.
Where i work, the definition of a patient with Covid is one who is being treated for COVID.
Thanks. The hospital I work at doesn’t have that middle ground of outpatient services in the hospital. If you are in the emergency dept you are not considered an inpatient. They either discharge you from the ED or the ED doc is the admitting physician. Once those orders are signed you are officially admitted.