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The Supplemental Data Elements state the following:
For encounters in the Initial Population, report the FIRST value for vital signs resulted from hospital outpatient locations in a facility within the 24 hours prior to the inpatient admission. If no values were resulted in the 24 hours prior to the admission (for example, for patients directly admitted to the hospital) report the first value resulted within 2 hours after the start of the inpatient admission. For laboratory test results, report the first value resulted from hospital outpatient locations in a facility within the 24 hours prior to admission. If there are no values in the 24 hours prior to admission, report the first value resulted within 24 hours after the start of the inpatient admission. First values for the core clinical data elements may be resulted in the emergency department or other hospital outpatient locations within the hospital facility before a patient is subsequently admitted to the same hospital. First values for these data elements may also be resulted in an inpatient location for directly admitted patients who do not receive care in the emergency department or other hospital outpatient locations before admission.
Is the intent for 2021, that the vital signs and lab results have to be resulted in an outpatient location? In HWR 2018, we just looked for the results of the vital signs and labs, not the location they were resulted in.
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The Supplemental Data Elements state the following:
For encounters in the Initial Population, report the FIRST value for vital signs resulted from hospital outpatient locations in a facility within the 24 hours prior to the inpatient admission. If no values were resulted in the 24 hours prior to the admission (for example, for patients directly admitted to the hospital) report the first value resulted within 2 hours after the start of the inpatient admission. For laboratory test results, report the first value resulted from hospital outpatient locations in a facility within the 24 hours prior to admission. If there are no values in the 24 hours prior to admission, report the first value resulted within 24 hours after the start of the inpatient admission. First values for the core clinical data elements may be resulted in the emergency department or other hospital outpatient locations within the hospital facility before a patient is subsequently admitted to the same hospital. First values for these data elements may also be resulted in an inpatient location for directly admitted patients who do not receive care in the emergency department or other hospital outpatient locations before admission.
Is the intent for 2021, that the vital signs and lab results have to be resulted in an outpatient location? In HWR 2018, we just looked for the results of the vital signs and labs, not the location they were resulted in.