MIMIC Services

[syf720]

Hello! I am a student looking at patient flow for my senior thesis. I am looking at the services table and would like to understand the services patients are in beyond their abbreviations. I have made the following guesses, but was hoping that someone could confirm and/or correct my guess as I wasn't able to find further information about this in the documentation. In particular, I was unsure about what MED, NMED, and OMED mapped to. I have excluded PSYCH and GYN from my analysis. This is what I have right now:

MED | General/Internal Medicine
CMED | Cardiology
NMED | Neurology
OMED | Oncology
SURG | (General) Surgery
CSURG | Cardiac Surgery
NSURG | Neural Surgery
ORTHO | Orthopedics
TRAUM | Trauma
TSURG | Thoracic Surgery
VSURG | Vascular Surgery

Thank you so much for your help!

[alistairewj]

They are listed out here: https://mimic.mit.edu/docs/iv/modules/hosp/services/

From that page:

Service	Description
CMED	Cardiac Medical - for non-surgical cardiac related admissions
CSURG	Cardiac Surgery - for surgical cardiac admissions
DENT	Dental - for dental/jaw related admissions
ENT	Ear, nose, and throat - conditions primarily affecting these areas
EYE	Eye diseases - including subspecialty services in glaucoma, cataract surgery, cornea and external diseases, and neuro-ophthalmology.
GU	Genitourinary - reproductive organs/urinary system
GYN	Gynecological - female reproductive systems and breasts
MED	Medical - general service for internal medicine
NB	Newborn - infants born at the hospital
NBB	Newborn baby - infants born at the hospital
NMED	Neurologic Medical - non-surgical, relating to the brain
NSURG	Neurologic Surgical - surgical, relating to the brain
OBS	Obstetrics - conerned with childbirth and the care of women giving birth
ORTHO	Orthopaedic - surgical, relating to the musculoskeletal system
OMED	Orthopaedic medicine - non-surgical, relating to musculoskeletal system
PSURG	Plastic - restortation/reconstruction of the human body (including cosmetic or aesthetic)
PSYCH	Psychiatric - mental disorders relating to mood, behaviour, cognition, or perceptions
SURG	Surgical - general surgical service not classified elsewhere
TRAUM	Trauma - injury or damage caused by physical harm from an external source
TSURG	Thoracic Surgical - surgery on the thorax, located between the neck and the abdomen
VSURG	Vascular Surgical - surgery relating to the circulatory system

[syf720]

Thank you--That page is very helpful!