The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation’s focus for collecting Present-on-Admission (POA) data is not only for hospital comparisons (though valuable in identifying best practices), but also on how we can use the knowledge of that existing condition to potentially identify preventable complications. Our goal is to assist hospital partners in delivering quality patient care and […]
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Why is the Present-on-Admission Flag Important?
(Part 2 of 3)
The Present-on-Admission (POA) indicator is a flag assigned to each diagnosis code on inpatient claims. Until recently, the Texas Health Care Information Council (THCIC) had not required hospitals to submit the POA indicator in order to allow time for transitioning and establishing processes for coding accurately. THCIC will require the POA flag in all inpatient […]
Present On Admission (POA) Submission
Important for Analysis (Part 1 of 3)
The Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) releases yearly quality reports for each of the hospitals based on the Agency for Healthcare Quality (AHRQ) indicators. These reports do not take into account the possibility of certain diagnosis, such as an infection, that might have been present on admission. This could be interpreted incorrectly and appear […]
Present On Admission (POA)
THCIC releases to the public yearly quality reports for each of the hospitals based on the Agency for Healthcare Quality (AHRQ) indicators. Currently, those reports do not take into account the possibility of certain diagnosis, such as an infection, that might have been present on admission. This could be intrepreted incorrectly and appear to be […]