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DEFINITION:

The reason for each patient rehospitalization since inpatient rehabilitation discharge or in the past year (whichever is shorter).

CODE:

Code one reason for each rehospitalization

0 Rehabilitation (inpatient)
1 Seizures
2 Neurologic disorder (non-seizure)
3 Psychiatric
4 Infectious
5 Orthopedic
6 General Health Maintenance or OB/GYN
7 Other not specified above
8 Not applicable--no rehospitalizations or no further rehospitalizations
9 Unknown--rehospitalized but reason is unknown
* 66 Variable did not exist at time of data collection. [Used only with variables 273(3-5)]
99 Unknown if rehospitalized

NOTE:

This variable includes all types of hospitalizations (i.e., an inpatient stay in any hospital, whether part of a TBI Model System or not).

If more than *five hospitalizations, have your Medical Director prioritize which two to code.

Data for follow-ups prior to 10/1/99 will be recoded from text field to the categories above.

Prior to 1/1/02 the code "9=unknown" did not distinguish between "unknown if rehospitalized" and "unknown reason for rehospitalization". On 1/1/02 "9=unknown" was clarified to mean "unknown reason for rehospitalization". On 1/1/04 the code "99=unknown if rehospitalized" was added. Thus, between 1/1/02 and 1/1/04 there was no way to record rehospitalization for unknown reason.

EXAMPLE:

Patient has been hospitalized twice since the last evaluation. Once for seizures related to TBI, and once for complications of diabetes.

01 06
08
08
08