![]() ![]() ![]() Q: Are trauma patients admitted for medical or non-trauma reasons excluded from the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria?Ī: No. However, if a patient has a qualifying traumatic injury AND a burn, then they must be considered for NTDS inclusion. The NTDS Workgroup determined that patients whose only injuries are burns should not be included. Starting with the 2021 patient admission year, the "T20-T28 with 7th character modifier of A ONLY" and "T30-T32 (burn by TBSA percentages)" codes were removed from the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria. Q: Should patients with isolated burns be reported to the NTDB/TQIP?Ī: No. If their first hospital encounter was at your hospital, then they must have been injured within 14 days of arriving at your hospital. If the patient was transferred to your hospital, then they must have been injured within 14 days of arriving at the referring hospital. Q: If a patient is transferred to our hospital, must they have sustained their injury within 14 days of presenting to the referring hospital? Or within 14 days of arriving at our hospital?Ī: The patient must have sustained a traumatic injury within 14 days of their initial hospital encounter. Q: Are stand-alone/free-standing emergency departments considered acute care hospitals?Ī: It depends on the individual facility and how they are recognized by CMS. If the patient sustained a qualifying traumatic injury within 14 days of their initial hospital encounter and was transferred from one acute care hospital to another acute care hospital, regardless of the mode of transport, then they meet the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria and are reported to TQIP. Q: "Patient transferred from one acute care hospital to another acute care hospital." Does this include patients who were transported by a private vehicle (POV)?Ī: Yes. The TQIP Patient Inclusion Criteria is included for each TQIP Benchmark Report in the References section and can change over time. Then, TQIP determines which patients are included in the TQIP Benchmark Report using the internally defined TQIP Patient Inclusion Criteria. Centers submitting data to the TQP must follow the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria as stated in the Participation Agreement. Q: Is the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria the same as the TQIP Inclusion Criteria?Ī: No. If the patient sustained a traumatic isolated hip fracture within 14 days of their initial hospital encounter and meet at least one criterion from "Step 2", they must be reported. Q: Do isolated hip fractures meet the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria?Ī: The NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria does not exclude patients who sustained a traumatic isolated hip fracture (IHF). Q: Do in-house traumas meet the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria?Ī: Patients who had a traumatic event that resulted in an injury while being treated at your hospital do not meet the NTDS Patient Inclusion Criteria and should not be reported. ![]()
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