CV ASC Registry Education-Seq#4625 (Tobacco Use)

Video Transcription

Sequence 4625, tobacco use, is indicating the frequency a patient uses tobacco as assessed and documented on arrival to your facility for their diagnostic coronary angiography  or PCI procedure. To emphasize, this data element is focused on tobacco, not nicotine, so nicotine delivery  devices such as vaping and e-cigarettes are not considered in the coding of this data element. These definitions are aligned to industry standard definitions to support data capture  directly from EMRs, electronic medical records, and to align with meaningful use. Therefore, it can be coded based on documentation of tobacco use, such as patient is a former  smoker of cigars would be coded as former, or it can be coded based on descriptive documentation that meets the definition in the data dictionary.  If coding using descriptive documentation, you would consider any tobacco product as an equivalent to cigarettes, which are referenced in the definitions.  If no documentation is present, and the current and prior smoking status is not known, unknown would be coded.

Video Summary

In the video transcript, it explains the importance of coding tobacco use in patient data for diagnostic procedures. The focus is on tobacco specifically, not nicotine from devices like vaping. The definitions align with industry standards for electronic medical records and meaningful use. The coding can be based on documented tobacco use, such as former smoker of cigars coded as former, or using descriptive documentation that meets the data dictionary definition. If smoking status is unknown with no documentation, it would be coded as unknown.

Keywords

tobacco use

coding

patient data

diagnostic procedures

industry standards