["Encounter, Order": "Decision to Admit to Hospital Inpatient"]

Performance/Reporting Period

2020

Value Set Description from VSAC

Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent procedures that are commonly used for capturing an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) category related to Encounter. The intent of this data element is to identify an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with codes representing an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting using the SNOMED CT system.
Exclusion Criteria: No exclusions.

Constrained to codes in the Encounter, Order: Decision to Admit to Hospital Inpatient value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.295)

QDM Datatype and Definition (QDM Version 5.4)

"Encounter, Order"

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that an order for the encounter indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set has been recommended.

Timing: The time the order is signed; 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.