Bella I Snow

• Performs basic data collection of demographics and coding of clinical and follow-up data from all sources into trauma registry database.
• Interacts with physicians, nurses, and other members of the trauma team to perform trauma registry functions.
• Keeps registry current as defined by Americal College of Surgeons (ACS) as 80% complete within 60 days of patient discharge.
• Determine appropriateness of patient entry into the Trauma Registry based on guidelines in the American College of Surgeons "Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient as well as National Trauma Data Standard.
• Provided high quality entry by abstraction of required stated and national trauma data elements from patient chart in real time and retrospectively.
• Participates in quality assurance, data validation, and improvement activities to ensure accuracy of data collection and timely submission of data according to State Trauma Registry and Americal College of Surgeons Optimal Resource Document for Trauma Centers.
• Understands mapping concepts and validates mapping of registry software for Trauma Quality Improvement Program(TQIP), National Trauma data Bank (NTDB), and state.
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Reviewed records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations

• Protect security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
• Retrieved patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
• Released information to person and agencies according to regulations.
• Assisted physicians with record completion.
• Performing interviews with parents to obtain information about birth for birth certificate.
• Processing birth certificates for newborns, including collecting identifying information form parents and inputting it into computer system.
• Recording information about newborns in birth registry book or computer database
• Recording information about previous marriages and divorces when applicable
• Recording information about parents' birthplace status when applicable