TISS28 Legacy Guide for Paper Form Collection

See TISS Items SMW

• Items 1 to 45 (except 11 & 39) - mark if the activity occurred any time during that calender date
• Answer each item separately; don't worry about apparent conflicts or overlaps between items

• A calendar day starts at 0001 hrs and ends at 2400 hrs

Who fills out the TISS

• All shift - bedside nurses.

• If a patient is in the ICU a very short time, a TISS score is required to reflect nursing efforts during this time.

• Do not sent TISS form to the ward with the chart. Please hand it in to the Unit Clerk who will file it in the Research Forms binder at the front desk.

• Once a page of TISS is completed, hand in the completed form to the Unit Clerk and start a new form. Please do not staple together. The scanning of the forms are affected if stapled.

• TISS is to be done for a patients entire length of stay in ICU.

• If a patient is transferred to another ICU, do not sent the form to the other unit or hospital. A new form is started when patient admitted to your ICU.

• If a patient is transferred to another ICU in your center and the Service looking after the patient changes, then a new TISS form is required. E.G., a patient who goes from MICU under Medical Service and is transferred to SICU under Surgical service.

TISS Quality Control Guide

Data Collector

• Data collectors will still be required to do quality control" of all TISS forms.
  • see TISS quality checks

Data Processor

• the data processor runs internal consistency checks on the TISS data and will flag patients whose TISS information is inconsistent with their collected information.
• For a list of data consistency checks and rules, see the Category:TISS76 Legacy Checks.
  • list of data consistency checks and rules no longer applies because TISS28 is different from TISS76.

Variation across centres

• As LKolesar points out, there is variation in how the TISS is collected in different centers. Is this something we should look at? Ttenbergen 00:04, 27 May 2008 (CDT)

site compliance issue

• collector have good relationship with staff in unit they work in. They will continue to provide feedback to staff on as needed basis.
• data collectors should discuss compliance issue to be emailed to ICU manager.

• if this is a problem anywhere we could do the same kind of tracking in tmp as we do for overstay... Template:Potential Change Ttenbergen 19:49, 2014 April 30 (CDT)

Staff to include in education

• Done by: Nurse Educator at each ICU site in Region.

When: Week of Dec 17.2012 onward. to include:

• current staff. Perm, PT & causal, nursing and unit clerks.
• New staff hired (should be part of orientation)
• ICU program - include in curriculum

See also

• TISS Form (TISS28)

Related articles

Related articles:

Legacy Content (← links) TISS28 Collection Guide (← links)