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🌱 Answer: No, if they don’t show up, don’t put in as an encounter. Only enter encounters when they show up to appointments.

🤔 Question: There is a patient that was transferred to us after multiple surgeries done at an out of state hospital. The patient was transferred to us as they actually live near our city. They were admitted to us with only 2% TBSA open after an initial TBSA of 75%. Would we include this patient in LTO outcomes as they did not initially admit to us?

🌱 Answer: If the patient was admitted to your facility as an acute admission, despite how long the time from the burn injury, then include patients in LTOs.

🤔 Question: For patients who passed away in the hospital or who don’t require follow-up with the burn center, should we just leave the LTO forms blank?

🌱 Answer: For patients who died in the hospital, just leave the form blank as the reason the LTOs were not done will be obvious with the death. For those patients who do not require follow-up, either at your burn center outpatient department or any other facility, please select "Follow-up complete", to indicate that they did not require further follow-up and were not lost to follow-up.

🤔 Question: For LTO data points of depression, acute stress, or PTSD, does this need to be done on each visit? If they do an assessment every other visit would you use what was done before or previously documented?

🌱 Answer: Frequency of screenings is at the discretion of the burn center. For the LTO data points in the clinic visits, only record responses for visits when these data points were captured. If you did not capture that data point for a particular clinic visit, record " Not documented in the outpatient record" for that visit.

Date of 95% Wound Closure

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