Trach Task

The trach task encodes whether or not a medicine patient has a tracheostomy. It is stored in the Diagnosis tab in ccmdb.mdb because that is the only way we could store it when we started to collect it.

Instructions

Medicine patients have lines created automatically under the diagnosis tab. The one for this element needs to be changed to one of the following:

• 100100 - Trach None
• 100101 - Trach Acute - fresh trach has been in place for less than 48 hours by admission
• 100102 - Trach Chronic - chronic trach has been in place for 48 hours or more by admission

Template:Data Integrity Checks

• see Check Duplicate Task Entries

Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks

query check_trach_dx_task

Wrong if:

• trach task none (100) or empty*1 and any trach dx
• trach task chronic (102) and no admit trach dx
• trach task chronic (102) with acquired trach dx
• trach task acute (101) and no admit or acute trach dx

where trach dxs are

• Tracheostomy except 77402 chrichothyroidotomy
• Tracheostomy Site Infection

• 1 empty tasks are checked elsewhere, this will give specific error.

• • Hi all I have a patient admitted that has a chronic trach (has for years) (trach task chronic) and was wondering if I should also be including trach in admit dx? (I would code this last) Would this be consistent with instruction above? Thanks. Pamela Piche 08:29, 2015 May 15 (CDT)
• I would put the trach task chronic but would not put the procedure tracheostomy in the admit codes in this scenario. The admit code section applies to current admission items (current hospitalization). If the pt was admitted with a problem with the trach, like an infection, then this can still be coded without putting the procedure tracheostomy in the admit section. --LKolesar 13:39, 2015 May 15 (CDT)

Data Structure

the list of options is in S_AllDiagnoses and the actual data is stored in L_Dxs.

Legacy

Task items replaced iTISS December 15, 2006.