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🌱 Answer: The "first wound excision date and time" field is for burn wound excision. For non-burn wounds, please select "Not applicable ".

🤔 Question: For non-burn patients, such as those with NSTI or non-healing wounds, is it necessary to complete the "first excision" section?

🌱 Answer: No. In the 2025 update to the Data Dictionary, we have added, “For non-burn wounds select not applicable”.

Hospital Discharge Date

🤔 Question: A question regarding two different cases where patients were admitted to inpatient hospice (with admit to Hospice order). The first case, the Burn Service continued to write notes each day while still managing their burns. The patient eventually died a couple of days later. The second case, the patient was admitted to inpatient hospice and died an hour later. The question is if the patient is under hospice care with an admit order would this end the encounter for abstracting in the registry even if we are still providing comfort care measures or do we continue the abstraction until the patient either discharges from the hospital or dies?

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🌱 Answer: Record the admissions the way you normally would (Initial admission and Related admissions) and record for Discharge Disposition "Left Against Medical Advice or Discontinued Care." The decision to continue to admit the patient is up to your facility/burn service.

🤔 Question: A patient was homeless before admission and is being discharged to the street. Should we select "discharge to home or self-care" or "discharge to a shelter/half-way house/recoup care/street"?

🌱 Answer: Select Discharge to a shelter/ half-way house/recoup care/street, as this more accurately depicts where the patient was discharged to.

Percent Wound Closure at Time of Discharge

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