Specifications Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures SCIP-Inf 6-4 Discharges 10-01-08 (4Q08) through 03-31-09 (1Q09)

SCIP-Inf-6: Surgery Patients with Appropriate Hair Removal Numerator: Surgery patients with surgical site hair removal with clippers or depilatory or with no surgical site hair removal.Denominator: All selected surgery patients.

Preoperative Hair Removal

Any= 2, 5, 7

Any = 1,3,4 and None = 2,5,7

In Numerator Population

In Measure Population

Not In Measure Population

Case WillBe Rejected

Missing

Preoperative Hair Removal

Any=1,2,3,4,5,7 and None=6

Any= 6

Variable Key:Surgery Days

Non-UTD Value

Missing Surgery Start Date

Surgery Days (in days) = Surgery Start Date – Admission Date

Surgery Days

≥ 0

< 0

=UTD Inf-6 D

Inf-6 D

Inf-6 Z

Inf-6 Z

Stop

Inf-6 ZNote: No allowable value can

occur more than once. Allowable values of ‘1’ or ‘7’ cannot be combined with each other or with any of the other allowable values.

Laparoscope

=2

Missing =1,3

START

Clinical Trial = YMissing

= N

Run cases that are included in the SCIP Initial Patient Population and pass the edits defined in the Data Processing Flow through this

measure.