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"Patient Characteristic Ethnicity"

Performance/Reporting Period
2019
QDM Datatype (QDM Version 5.3):

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that the patient has one or more of the ethnicities indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set.

Timing: Ethnicity does not have a specific timing. Measures using Patient Characteristic, Ethnicity should address the most recent entry in the clinical record.

Data Elements defined by this QDM Datatype:
["Patient Characteristic Ethnicity": "Ethnicity"]
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021