HAS 105F Air Force Admissions and Dispositions Practice Exam

Admission source shows where the patient came from before entering inpatient care. When a patient is evaluated in the emergency department and then admitted as an inpatient, the code used is the Emergency Room Admission. This distinguishes it from a direct admission, which happens without an ED encounter (for example, admission from a clinic or another facility). The other options don’t describe an ER-origin admission—newborns have their own category, and the remaining codes correspond to different admission pathways not involving the ER.