Sometimes we refer to 'Admission to ICU" or or "Admitted to Psychiatry", however the Canadian Ontology doesn't accommodate this

Decision Status: Completed

Background

Options

Discussion

Choosing Admission and Discharge documents to be only for admission and discharges from whole facilities, not units ensures that the document type will include what is expected by the reader (a summary of a whole hospital stay or whole evaluation before admission), no semantic overlap with the patient going in and out of a ward. It also allows for markers of hospital encounters when there isn't other encounter information (the date of the admission and discharge documents always form the date of the hospital encounter). For 'admission to ICU' or 'Admission to Psych" use Transfer document with the SMD the receiving discipline.

Decision

See meeting notes in May and June 2026

Guideline

ToS of 'Admission Encounter' and 'Discharge Note' are only used for hospital admissions and discharges, not admission to wards or services in the hospital. Those are done by ToK = 'Transfer Summary' with SMD = the receiving discipline