Post-Discharge Appointment Scheduled Within 7 Days (v2020A1)

Specifications Manual for Joint Commission National Quality Measures (v2020A1)

Posted: 9/13/2019

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Data Element
Version 2020A1

Name:

Post-Discharge Appointment Scheduled Within 7 Days

Collected For:

ACHF-02

Definition:

Documentation that a follow-up appointment for an office or home health visit for management of heart failure was scheduled within 7 days post-discharge and documented including location, date, and time.

Question:

Was a follow-up appointment for an office or home health visit for management of heart failure scheduled within 7 days post-discharge and documented including location, date, and time?

Format:

Length:	1
Type:	Alphanumeric
Occurs:	1

Allowable Values:

Y (Yes) A follow-up appointment for an office or home health visit for management of heart failure was scheduled within 7 days post-discharge and documented including location, date, and time.

N (No) A follow-up appointment for an office or home health visit for management of heart failure was not scheduled within 7 days post-discharge and documented including location, date, and time, OR unable to determine from medical record documentation.

Notes for Abstraction:

A follow-up appointment is an appointment with a physician/APN/PA in a physician office or ambulatory care clinic OR a home health visit with a RN/APN for professional nursing services that occurs within 7 days of discharge from the inpatient setting.
Follow-up scheduled within 7 days via telemedicine/teleconference to assess the patient in the home setting should be treated as a home health visit, select “Yes”.
Documentation of the scheduled office appointment must include location, date and time in order to select “Yes”. If all three pieces of information are not documented, select “No.
Documentation of a home health visit must include the date in order to select Yes. Documentation of the time is optional only for a home health visit, as the time of the visit may vary.
If the follow-up appointment is scheduled beyond 7 days post-discharge, select “No”.

Suggested Data Sources:

Nursing notes
Progress notes
Physician orders
Discharge summary
Discharge instruction sheet
Home health referral form

Additional Notes:

Guidelines for Abstraction:

Inclusion	Exclusion
None	None

Specifications Manual for Joint Commission National Quality Measures (v2020A1)
Discharges 01-01-20 (1Q20) through 6-30-20 (2Q20)

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