Introduction

Admission (to health care facility)

Transfer (of care of subject to other provider)

Discharge (aka 'Dismissal'; transfer to GP or other non-acute HCP)

SNOMED CT (2009 edition) includes numerous terms to do with discharge, falling under procedure and finding hierarchies. These appear to be the original READ codes (+/- later modifications post-integration with SNOMED?). A summarised view is as follows:

• Administrative procedure (procedure)
  • Patient discharge (procedure)
    • Discharge by person (procedure)
      • Patient discharge, deceased, donation of body (procedure)
      • Patient discharge, deceased, no autopsy (procedure)
      • Discharge by health worker (procedure)
        • Discharge by physician (procedure)
          • ~40 children (medical specialties)
        • Discharge by counsellor (procedure)
          • 4 children (types of counsellor)
        • Discharge by nurse (procedure)
          • 8 children (types of nurse)
        • ...
    • Discharge from establishment (procedure)
      • Discharge from hospice (procedure)
      • Discharge from hospital (procedure)
      • Discharge from ward (procedure)
      • ....
    • Discharge to establishment (procedure)
      • Discharge home (procedure)
      • Discharge to residential home (procedure)
      • Discharge to nursing home (procedure)
      • Discharge to ward (procedure)
      • Discharge to hospital (procedure)
      • ...
    • Patient on pass (procedure)
    • ...
• Clinical finding (finding)
  • Administrative statuses (finding)
    • Admission statuses (finding)
    • Patient encounter status (finding)
    • Transfer status (finding)
    • ~40 other status types
    • Discharge status (finding)
      • Discharged from hospital (finding)
      • Discharged from inpatient care (finding)
      • Patient discharged alive (finding)
      • Discharged from care of diabetes specialist nurse (finding)
      • Ready for discharge (finding)
      • ~10 more types of discharge status