🤔 Question: A patient presented with a contact burn injury from a muffler, but was also dragged by the vehicle that ran them over. They have an obvious third-degree contact burn to the abdomen and thigh and cutaneous injury in other parts of the body that are more consistent with friction injury.

For the Lund and Browder portion of BCQP, is the TBSA% of the area with the obvious contact burns recorded and not the areas with presumed friction injuries? Then, for the diagnosis, is the third-degree burns coded to the obvious areas of contact burns and then abrasion for the areas with friction injuries?

🌱 Answer: Only record the burn injuries on the Lund and Browder portion of the BCQP or other platforms. Do not record the non-burn friction areas on the Lund and Browder if the patient also has burn injuries as that will skew the burn data. The only time it is acceptable to record non-burn areas in the L&B chart is if the patient has no burn injury at all. In these circumstances, the case will not be pulled for burn for analysis, so it will not affect BCQP reporting (non-burn injuries are filtered out of TBSA analysis).
For Diagnosis Codes, record both the burn codes and the abrasion for the friction burns (non-burn codes).

🤔 Question: A patient presented with a contact burn injury from a muffler but also got dragged by the vehicle that ran them over. They have an obvious third-degree contact burn to the abdomen and thigh and cutaneous injury in other parts of the body that are more consistent with friction injury.

For the Lund and Browder portion of BCQP, is the TBSA% of the area with the obvious contact burns recorded and not the areas with presumed friction injuries? Then, for the diagnosis, is the third-degree burns coded to the obvious areas of contact burns and then abrasion for the areas with friction injuries?

🌱 Answer: Only record the burn injuries on the Lund and Browder portion of the BCQP or other platforms. Do not record the non-burn friction areas on the Lund and Browder if the patient also has burn injuries as that will skew the burn data. The only time it is acceptable to record non-burn areas in the L&B chart is if the patient has no burn injury at all. In these circumstances, the case will not be pulled for burn for analysis by BData, so it will not affect the analysis (non-burn injuries are filtered out of TBSA analysis).
For Diagnosis Codes, record both the burn codes and the abrasion for the friction burns (non-burn codes).