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"Symptom"

Performance/Reporting Period
2020
QDM Datatype (QDM Version 5.4):

Symptom represents an indication that a person has a condition or disease. Some examples are headache, fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and pain. Also, symptoms are subjective manifestations of the disease perceived by the patient. As an example to differentiate symptom from finding, the patient’s subjective symptom of fever is distinguished from the temperature (a finding). For a finding, there is either a source of either a temperature-measuring device together with a recorder of the device (electronically) or an individual (healthcare provider, patient, etc.).

Data Elements defined by this QDM Datatype:
QDM Attributes

prevalencePeriod

Prevalance Period is the time from onset dateTime to abatement dateTime.

severity

Indicates the intensity of the specified datatype (e.g., persistent, moderate, or severe).
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021