🤔 Question: What is the best way to document the LTO for patients in the registry who are discharged with follow-up at another facility/clinic? This happens sometimes because of insurance requirements, or because a patient is being discharged with family who live closer to another burn center, and follow-up is arranged there. It seems odd to say "lost to follow-up" because they have been arranged to receive follow-up elsewhere, but the other options of "follow-up continued/ongoing" and "follow-up complete" don't seem to fit either.

🌱 Answer: If you send them to another facility for follow up, then you should check "Lost to Follow Up" because the patient is no longer coming to your facility, and you are no longer doing the follow-up on the patient.  This is not a negative for your facility as there are many facilities that must refer patients to other facilities for follow-up because of distance and other issues.