Table 5.
Most frequent services avoided or initiated
| Episodes | |
|---|---|
| Admissions avoided (DRG classification) | |
| Poisoning/toxic effects of drugs, age > 59 years with complicating comorbidities | 11 |
| Heart failure and shock | 9 |
| Miscellaneous metabolic disorder without complicating comorbidities | 7 9 |
| Chronic obstructive airway disease | 5 |
| Unstable angina without complicating comorbidities | 5 |
| Coagulation disorder, age > 69 years | 5 |
| Laboratory monitoring changed | |
| Gentamicin blood concentrations | 96 |
| Vancomycin blood concentrations | 38 |
| Tobramycin blood concentrations | 22 |
| Urea and electrolytes | 21 |
| Procedures avoided | |
| Administration of blood or bone marrow already collected | 12 |
| Oesphagoscopy, gastroscopy, duodenoscopy or panendoscopy with or without biopsy | 6 |
| Bronchoscopy with one or more endobronchial biopsies or other diagnostic or therapeutic procedures | 3 |
| Oesophagoscopy, gastroscopy, duodenoscopy or panendoscopy (1 or more such procedures), with 1 or more of the following endoscopic procedures – polypectomy, removal of foreign body, diathermy, heater probe or laser coagulation, or sclerosing injection of bleeding upper gastrointestinal lesions | 2 |
| Lung ventilation study using aerosol, technegas or xenon gas, with planar imaging and single photon emission tomography or planar imaging or single photon emission tomography (R) | 2 |