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["Discharge Disposition": "Other Health Care Facility"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2021
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: This set of values contains SNOMEDCT codes for for environments of care representing post-acute and psychiatric settings.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use Quality Data Model (QDM) category related to Encounter. The intent of this data element is to identify an admission source or discharge disposition of an other health care facility.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes codes representing extended care facilities, intermediate care facilities, LTACHs, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, veterans homes, and psychiatric hospitals.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclude codes representing acute inpatient and outpatient environments of care.

Constrained to codes in the Discharge Disposition: Other Health Care Facility value set (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1029.67)

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