PATHWAYS

Definition

Includes date of injury, admission and discharge dates from acute and rehabilitation stays, and dates of any leave of absence (short-term interruption)

ACUTE

Definition

AcuteAdm: Date of admission to the emergency room
AcuteDis: Date of discharge from acute facility

Form

[X] Form 1
[ ] Form 2

Source

Form 1 - Abstraction (acute record)

Details

If a patient is transferred to an alternate level of care within the designated Model System prior to inpatient rehabilitation, the ALC length of stay should be added to the Model System acute care stay or inpatient rehabilitation stay, whichever is most applicable.

If a patient is hospitalized for other reasons, and receives a TBI while hospitalized and all other inclusion criteria are met, then enroll and code date of admission as date of injury.

Characteristics

Length of stay may be expected to increase slightly as of 1/1/05 simply due to a change in TBIMS Inclusion Criteria which allows patients to not be considered discharged from System if they go to a long term care facility that is able to provide patients with a specified minimum level of services (see definition in Inclusion Criteria), even though this patient does not receive those services.

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

AcuteAdm

388

Date of model system ER admit:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

AcuteDis

388

Date of acute care discharge:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

388

08/08/8888

Not Applicable

388

09/09/9999

Unknown

History

No history found for the Domain.

ACUTE - CALCULATED

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

DAYStoACUTEadm

433

Days From Injury to Acute Admit

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

DAYStoACUTEdc

434

Days From Injury to Acute Discharge

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOSAcute

521

Days From Acute Admit to Acute Discharge

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

433

8888

Not applicable

433

9999

Unknown

434

8888

Not applicable

434

9999

Unknown

521

888

Not Applicable

521

999

Unknown

History

No history found for the Domain.

INJURY

Definition

Date of Injury

Form

[X] Form 1
[ ] Form 2

Source

Form 1 - Abstraction (acute record, rehab record)

Details

If a patient is hospitalized for other reasons, and receives a TBI while hospitalized and all other inclusion criteria are met, then enroll and code accordingly.

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

Injury

514

Date of injury:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

514

09/09/9999

Unknown

History

Date

Description

2004-08-19

Added NOTE : regarding including patient hospitalized for other reasons, but receives a TBI while hospitalized.

INJURY - CALCULATED

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

INJYEAR

3479

Year of Injury

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

No codes found for the given group IDs.

History

No history found for the Domain.

REHABILITATION

Definition

RehabAdm: Rehab admission date
RehabDis: Rehab discharge date
LOA: Leave of Absence (also referred to as short term interruption) includes transfers out of inpatient rehabilitation to an alternative level of care (acute/sub-acute) for 3 or more days, returning to inpatient rehabilitation within 30 days.

Form

[X] Form 1
[ ] Form 2

Source

Form 1 - Abstraction (rehab record)

Details

If a patient is transferred to an alternate level of care within the designated Model System prior to inpatient rehabilitation, the ALC length of stay should be added to the Model System acute care stay or inpatient rehabilitation stay, which ever is most applicable. An alternate level of care is defined as a transfer of a patient from inpatient rehabilitation to a lower level of care (usually with maintenance therapy) after he/she is medically stable and reaches functional plateau (as determined by a medical doctor and utilization review committee).

Day hospital treatment should not be included as part of inpatient rehabilitation stay.

Rehab Admission Date

Do not assume that the date of discharge from the acute care hospital is the same as the date of admission to inpatient rehab.

Rehab Discharge Date

If a patient completes acute care and inpatient rehabilitation and is then transferred to an alternate level of care (regardless of whether it is a designated Model System facility or not), this is considered the rehabilitation discharge date and the Residence at Discharge [RES] should reflect this alternate level of care at discharge.

Leave of Absence (Short Term Interruption)

Dates of LOA/short term interruptions (3 days or more) includes transfers during system inpatient rehabilitation phase only.

Patient is off rehabilitation 30 days or less for each interruption.

Transfers for more than 30 days should be considered a discharge, not a rehab interruption, and first day of last interruption is coded as date of discharge.

Any returns to inpatient rehab after 30 days should be coded as a Rehospitalization at the Form 2, year 1 followup.

If more than two short term interruptions, code the two longest.

Characteristics

Length of stay may be expected to increase slightly as of 1/1/05 simply due to a change in TBIMS Inclusion Criteria which allows patients to not be considered discharged from System if they go to a long term care facility that is able to provide patients with a specified minimum level of services (see definition in Inclusion Criteria), even though this patient does not receive those services.

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

LOA1End

520

First interruption end date:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOA1Start

520

First interruption start date:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOA2End

520

Second interruption end date:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOA2Start

520

Second interruption start date:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

RehabAdm

546

Date of rehab admit:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

RehabDis

546

Date of rehab discharge:

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

520

08/08/8888

Not Applicable

520

09/09/9999

Unknown

546

08/08/8888

Not Applicable

546

09/09/9999

Unknown

History

Date

Description

1994-02-01

Added NOTE : this variable refers to rehab phase only and how to code a system readmission after 30 days.

1994-02-01

Added NOTE : all references to "transfer" changed to "interruption".

1999-04-20

Added NOTE : regarding coding more than two interruptions.

2002-01-01

Added NOTE : to not assume that date of acute discharge is the same as admission to inpatient rehab.

2002-01-01

Added NOTE : about coding time spent in an alternative care facility following discharge from System acute hospital.

2006-01-01

Added CHARACTERISTICS : LOS is likely to increase slightly simply due to a change in TBIMS Inclusion Criteria.

REHABILITATION - CALCULATED

Definition

Computer uses interruption data to calculate Net Length of Stay, via the formula below: Net LOA = (Disch date - Adm date) - Days off rehab service.

Variables

Form Type

Variable

ID

Question

History

Form 1

DAYSToREHABadm

435

Days From Injury to Rehab Admit

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

DAYStoREHABdc

436

Days From Injury to Rehab Discharge

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOSRehab

522

Days Spent in Rehab

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOSRehabNoInt

523

Days From Rehab Admit to Rehab Discharge not Including Interuptions

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Form 1

LOSTot

524

Days From Acute Admit to Rehab Dis (Excluding LOS)

1989-10-01 - Variable Added

Codes and Values

ID

Code

Description

435

8888

Not Applicable

435

9999

Unknown

436

8888

Not Applicable

436

9999

Unknown

522

888

Not Applicable

522

999

Unknown

523

888

Not Applicable

523

999

Unknown

524

888

Not Applicable

524

999

Unknown

History

No history found for the Domain.