I read from a Q&A documentation following a eCQM webinar that "Gestational age should be documented 24 hours or less before or on the delivery date/time. As mentioned in the webinar, the logic distinguishes between when an assessment is documented in the EHR (author dateTime) and when an assessment is performed (relevant dateTime). So, if you assess a patient’s gestational age at 0200, patient delivers at 0230, and you don’t document until 0300, the assessment relevant dateTime should be mapped to 0200 which is prior to the delivery time. Additionally, some EHR’s calculate gestational age automatically whereby the gestational age may continue to advance after delivery. Therefore, the logic specifically looks for a time prior to or on delivery. We are considering adding additional logic to the measure which would include gestational age assessments performed after delivery but on the same day of delivery.”

Is this applicable to all elements. If we retroactively document in our EHR at a later date and time the information found on the paper charts, will the fields be accepted, like the Gestational age? Or is there a hard stopped to the timeframe in which retro-inputted data can be placed?