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["Discharge Disposition": "Discharged To Health Care Facility For Hospice Care"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2021
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent procedures used to represent the discharge of a patient to a health care facility for hospice care.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) attribute related to Discharge Disposition. The intent of this data element is to identify the final place or setting to which the patient was discharged on the day of discharge from a particular inpatient encounter. This particular value set intends to identify patients who were discharged to a health care facility for hospice care.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with SNOMED CT codes representing health care facilities.
Exclusion Criteria: No exclusions.

Constrained to codes in the Discharge Disposition: Discharged To Health Care Facility For Hospice Care value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.207)

QDM Datatype and Definition

dischargeDisposition

The disposition, or location to which the patient is transferred at the time of hospital discharge.
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021