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🌱 Answer: This is addressed in the 2024 Data Dictionary under Registry Inclusion Criteria (page 5). If the patient is under the care of the burn service, regardless of where in the hospital they are, then they should be included in the registry if they meet one of the 3 criteria listed in the Data Dictionary/Registry Inclusion Criteria. You may also include observation patients admitted for less than 24 hours if they are under the care of the burn service. All these patients should be admitted as initial admits. - Registry Inclusion Criteria (Page 5 Data Dictionary 2024)
🤔 Question: What data specifically is required for a facility to become ABA verified?
🌱 Answer: Please check with the Verification Committee or ABA representative for this information. You can also find some of this in the Verification Guidelines on the American Burn Association website. (https://ameriburn.org/quality-care/verification/)
🤔 Question: If a trauma patient comes in with multiple injuries and is comanaged by several other services but the Burn Service is consulted for a laceration and repairs the laceration. Should this patient be added to the registry?
🌱 Answer: If the burn service co-manages the care of the patient, then yes, this patient should be included in the registry. The dates the patient should be included are from the time the burn service begins co-managing care until the time they sign off and are no longer co-managing care, which may be before the patient is actually discharged from the hospital. In this particular case, if the Burn Service is only consulting and perhaps doing a minor laceration repair and then does not see the patient again for continued follow-up, they should not be included in the Registry.
🤔 Question: Have the inclusion criteria been reviewed/approved by the Verification Committee? I recall prior email threads within our community Doctors wanted burn patients who died in the ED before burn service could be consulted or manage care to be included in the registry for PI purposes.
🌱 Answer: Yes, patients that are alive at any point while they are in the ER and then die in the ER should be included in the registry and this has been approved by both. Patients that arrive to the ER dead and never reacquire any cardiac function should not be included in the registry. - Burn Center Admission – Inclusion Criteria (page 19 Data Dictionary 2023)
🤔 Question: If the readmission surgeries are done solely by another service, are these included in the related admissions in the registry?
🌱 Answer: No, enter only surgeries done by the Burn Service in Related Admissions. You should enter all burn-related surgeries in the Surgical Procedures section of the new Long-Term Outcomes which will begin with new patients admitted beginning in January 2024 regardless of who does them (e.g., other hospitals or services).
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