Understanding the LAAO Registry Follow-Up Process

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In this video, titled "Understanding the LAAO Registries Follow-up Process," Fernando Garcia Barbón explains how to code a patient's follow-up status. The options are alive, deceased, or lost to follow-up. The patient is coded as alive if they were alive at the time of the follow-up assessment. Deceased status is assigned if the patient expired after hospital discharge or within the follow-up period. A common error is coding the patient as deceased with an incorrect follow-up assessment date. The patient is coded as lost to follow-up if they cannot be reached or refuse to participate. The video concludes with an explanation of the requirements for coding a patient as lost to follow-up.