| DESCRIPTION | This options allows the supervisor to regenerate the CENSUS WORKFILEentries for a particular census date. This option places one entry in the CENSUS WORKFILE for eachadmission needing a census record for that selected census date. The workfile is an extract of data from the admission data for thepatients who were inpatients as of 11:59 on the census date. Thisworkfile makes the printing of the 'Census Status Report' faster than otherwise would be possible. Without this workfile, itwould be neccessary to scan all admissions prior to the census date to determine if the admission was still active on the census date. This option only needs to be run at the beginning of the census process and at the end of the process to ensure that no admissions have been added via bed control. However, this option can be run at anytimeif desired. NOTE: The 'Census Status Report' uses the the CENSUS WORKFILE. As a result, the 'Census Status Report' should not be run until after the regeneration is complete. NOTE: The first time the 'Census Status Report' is run for a particular census date, the CENSUS WORKFILE is automatically generated. At the end of the regeneration process, the WORKFILE LAST UPDATEDfield in the PTF CENSUS DATE file is updated with the currentdate and time. The 'Display Census Date Parameters' option displays all the parameters associated with a census date, including WORKFILE LAST UPDATED. A supervisor can use this option tomonitor the completion of a regeneration. Also, at the end of the regeneration process, a Mailman bulletinis sent to the user requesting the regeneration. This bulletinwill indicate any changes that may have occurred as a result ofregeneration. |