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["Communication From Provider To Provider": "Consultant Report"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2019
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent consultant reports.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) category related to Communication.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with written consultant reports.
Exclusion Criteria: Excludes reports that are conducted via telephone calls or verbal communication.

Constrained to codes in the Communication From Provider To Provider: Consultant Report value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.121.12.1006)

QDM Datatype and Definition (QDM Version 5.3)

"Communication From Provider To Provider"

To meet criteria using this datatype, the communication indicated by the Communication QDM category and its corresponding value set must be communicated from one provider to another.

Timing: The time the communication occurs, or is sent; Author dateTime.

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.

relatedTo

An attribute that indicates one QDM data element fulfills the expecations of another QDM data element.
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021