Table 5.

Weighted Score Card for Skin Alteration Assessment

Total Weighted Data Need Score for Clinical Topic: Skin Alteration = 2.69*
Reason Data is Needed	High Priority Data Needs	Data Need Tallies for selected Clinical Data Elements**
		Skin Alteration Type	Healing Progress	Wound Bed Appearance	Pressure Ulcer Preexisting	Pressure Ulcer Start Date	Pressure Ulcer Stage
Regulatory	CMS1 Pressure Ulcers Acquired After Admission				1	1	1
	AHRQ2 Patient Safety Indicators	1		1			1
	TJC Surgical Care Improvement Project		1
Billing	Identified by SME	1	1		1	1	1
CDS	Pressure Ulcer Present on Admission; Plan of Care Problem				1	2
Weighted score per clinical data element		2.11	2.1	1.68	2.09	2.14	2.12

^*Weighted Score Key: 0-1 non-regulatory data need only, 1-2 regulatory data needs, 2-3 non-regulatory and regulatory data needs.

^**Table only displays the clinical data elements with weighted score > 1.0;

¹CMS: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services;

²AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;

³TJC: The Joint Commission