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🌱 Answer: There are certain data points that do have a Not Know/Not Recorded option. For those that don't, leave them blank.
🤔 Question: Patients are sometimes admitted for burn scar management. Should these be classified as burn patients or non-burn patients? Additionally, should LTO data be collected for these cases?
🌱 Answer: Patients should not be added to the Burn Registry for burn scar management as an initial admission. If they had been added for treatment of their acute burn wound, then they can be added as a Related Admission. This is being clarified in the 2025 Data Dictionary. “If the initial admission is for reconstructive treatment of an already healed acute burn or non-burn injury, these patients should not be included in the ABA registry.”
🤔 Question: There is a patient who was waiting in the ED to be seen for body aches and occasional chest pain. While she was in the waiting room they went outside to smoke and forgot they had their oxygen on which resulted in a flash burn. They were brought inside and admitted to the renal service with burn service following. Would this patient be included in the burn registry or would you say it happened "in house" and would be excluded?
🌱 Answer: This would be entered as an admission and included in the registry if the patient's burn injury is being cared for by the burn service, regardless of where the patient is located in the hospital. The Admission Date is whenever the burn service started the care. Since the patient was still waiting to be seen for the original complaints and hadn't yet been admitted, the Admission Source would be Direct from the Scene of the Injury. Transport mode would probably be Other, and you can explain this in the Injury Details section.