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["Admission Source": "Hospital Settings"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2019
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent hospital environments where a patient received inpatient or outpatient care.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) category Encounter or attribute Admission Source. The intent of this data element is to identify hospital environments where a patient may receive inpatient or outpatient care.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with hospital environment and all its children. Codes used are to be SNOMED CT codes only.
Exclusion Criteria: No exclusions.

Constrained to codes in the Admission Source: Hospital Settings value set (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1111.126)

QDM Attribute and Definition (QDM Version 5.3)

admissionSource

The location from which the patient was admitted (e.g., physician referral, facility from which the patient was transferred).
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021