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["Medication, Order": "Depression medications - adult"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2019
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent medications that are commonly used to treat adult depression.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) category or attribute related to Medication.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with antidepressant medications as well as other recommended depressive management medications, specific to the adult age group, for depression management.
Exclusion Criteria: Excludes medications that are not commonly used in the treatment of depression in the adult age group.

Constrained to codes in the Medication, Order: Depression medications - adult value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.600.470)

QDM Datatype and Definition (QDM Version 5.3)

"Medication, Order"

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document a request to a pharmacy to provide the medication indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set.

Timing: The Author dateTime is the time the order is signed.

Timing: The Relevant Period addresses:

  • startTime - when the first administration of the medication is expected. The first administration may be expected at the time of the order or at a specified future date (i.e., the active time for the order); such information should be identified in the medication order. If the startTime is not specified in the order, the startTime defaults to the Author dateTime (the time the order is signed).
  • stopTime - when the medication supply provided by the medication order is expected to be completed, including all fulfillments covered by the number of refills.

Note that when calculating cumulative medication duration, the stopTime may be present directly in the medication order. If the stopTime is not available, the duration in days is the difference between the Relevant Period start and stop times multiplied by (1 + the number of refills).

QDM Attributes

authorDateTime

The time the data element was entered into the clinical software. Note, some datatypes include both Relevant Time and Author dateTime attributes. The purpose is to accommodate Author dateTime if the actual start and stop times are not available when evaluating for feasibility, and also to allow specification of a time for Negation Rationale.
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021