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.