["Laboratory Test, Order": "Lab Tests for Sexually Transmitted Infections"]

Performance/Reporting Period

2020

Value Set Description from VSAC

Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts that represent laboratory tests for sexually transmitted infections.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use the Quality Data Model (QDM) category related to Laboratory Test, Order.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes only relevant concepts associated with laboratory tests for sexually transmitted infections in females. This is a grouping of LOINC codes.
Exclusion Criteria: Excludes codes that indicate lab tests for sexually transmitted infections in male patients.

Constrained to codes in the Laboratory Test, Order: Lab Tests for Sexually Transmitted Infections value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.110.12.1051)

QDM Datatype and Definition (QDM Version 5.4)

"Laboratory Test, Order"

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document a request for the laboratory test indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set.

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.