title: "transfers table"
linktitle: "transfers"
date: 2020-08-10
weight: 1
description: >
Detailed information about patients' unit transfers.

transfers

Physical locations for patients throughout their hospital stay.

Links to

• patients on subject_id
• admissions on hadm_id

Important considerations

• The icustays table is derived from this table.

Table columns

Detailed Description

subject_id, hadm_id, transfer_id

Identifiers which specify the patient: subject_id is unique to a patient, hadm_id is unique to a patient hospital stay, and transfer_id is unique to a patient physical location.

Note that stay_id present in the icustays and edstays tables is derived from transfer_id. For example, three contiguous ICU stays will have three separate transfer_id for each distinct physical location (e.g. a patient could move from one bed to another). The entire stay will have a single stay_id, whih will be equal to the transfer_id of the first physical location.

eventtype

eventtype describes what transfer event occurred: 'ed' for an emergency department stay, 'admit' for an admission to the hospital, 'transfer' for an intra-hospital transfer and 'discharge' for a discharge from the hospital.

careunit

The type of unit or ward in which the patient is physically located. Examples of care units include medical ICUs, surgical ICUs, medical wards, new baby nurseries, and so on.

intime, outtime

intime provides the date and time the patient was transferred into the current care unit (careunit) from the previous care unit. outtime provides the date and time the patient was transferred out of the current physical location.