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🌱 Answer: When entering "Admission Type" into BCQP data entry, select "Related admission or readmission" Please see 2023 Data Dictionary page 23. This admission will then be linked to the initial admission entered in your old registry. Feedback from BData noted also: You can either delete the case from your old registry and add freshly to BCQP, or enter in BCQP as a 'Readmission' and make use of Legacy registry case number field.
🤔 Question: Once a patient is discharged and is now Outpatient, should we be documenting any outpatient procedures in the registry? (example: re-grafting, laser, etc.) Or do you track them in an outpatient registry that you might have at your own facility?
🌱 Answer: For patients that are entered initially as acute inpatients, you should enter all readmissions while the wounds are still open (acute patient) as related admissions. Beginning January 2024, Long Term Outcome (LTO) data points were added to the Registry. Operative and Outpatient Procedures after the patient has been discharged should be tracked in the LTO Section.