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relevantPeriod

A QDM attribute provides specific detail about a QDM datatype.

Performance/Reporting Period
2021
QDM Definition (QDM Version 5.5 Guidance Update):

Relevant Period addresses the time between the start of an action to the end of an action. Each datatype using relevant period defines specific definitions for the start and stop time for the action listed.

Note: negation rationale indicates a one-time documentation of a reason an activity is not performed. Negation of QDM datatyperelated actions for a reason always use the author dateTime attribute to reference timing and must not use relevantPeriod

Used By:
"Adverse Event"
"Care Goal"
"Communication, Performed"
"Device, Applied"
"Diagnostic Study, Performed"
"Encounter, Performed"
"Intervention, Performed"
"Laboratory Test, Performed"
"Medication, Active"
"Medication, Administered"
"Medication, Dispensed"
"Medication, Order"
"Patient Characteristic, Clinical Trial Participant"
"Patient Characteristic, Payer"
"Physical Exam, Performed"
"Procedure, Performed"
"Substance, Administered"
["Device, Applied": "Cardiac Pacer"]
["Device, Applied": "Frailty Device"]
["Device, Applied": "Graduated compression stockings (GCS)"]
["Device, Applied": "Intermittent pneumatic compression devices (IPC)"]
["Device, Applied": "Venous foot pumps (VFP)"]
["Diagnostic Study, Performed": "Bone Scan"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Acute Inpatient"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Annual Wellness Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Audiology Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Behavioral Health Follow-up Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Behavioral/Neuropsych Assessment"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Care Services in Long-Term Residential Facility"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Clinical Oral Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Contact or Office Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Detoxification Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Discharge Services - Hospital Inpatient Same Day Discharge"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Discharge Services - Hospital Inpatient"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Discharge Services - Nursing Facility"] (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.11.1065)
["Encounter, Performed": "Discharge Services - Nursing Facility"] (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.101.12.1013)
["Encounter, Performed": "ED"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Emergency Department Visit"] (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.292)
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter Inpatient"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter to Document Medications"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter to Evaluate BMI"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter to Screen for Blood Pressure"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter to Screen for Depression"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Encounter-Influenza"]
["Encounter, Performed": "ESRD Monthly Outpatient Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Frailty Encounter"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Group Psychotherapy"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Health behavior assessment, or re-assessment (ie, health-focused clinical interview, behavioral observations, clinical decision making)"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Health behavior intervention, individual, face-to-face; initial 30 minutes"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Home Healthcare Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Hospital Inpatient Visit - Initial"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Hospital Observation Care - Initial"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Hospital Services for urology care"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Medical Disability Exam"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Non-Elective Inpatient Encounter"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Nonacute Inpatient"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Nursing Facility Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Observation care discharge day management (This code is to be utilized to report all services provided to a patient on discharge from outpatient hospital observation status if the discharge is on other than the initial date..."]
["Encounter, Performed": "Observation Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Observation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Occupational Therapy Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Office Visit"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Ophthalmologic Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Ophthalmological Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Outpatient Consultation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Outpatient Encounters for Preventive Care"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Outpatient"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Palliative Care Encounter"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Patient Provider Interaction"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Physical Therapy Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services - Established Office Visit, 18 and Up"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services - Group Counseling"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services - Other"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services, Initial Office Visit, 0 to 17"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services-Individual Counseling"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care Services-Initial Office Visit, 18 and Up"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Preventive Care, Established Office Visit, 0 to 17"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Psych Visit - Diagnostic Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Psych Visit - Family Psychotherapy"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Psych Visit - Psychotherapy"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Psychoanalysis"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Psychotherapy and Pharmacologic Management"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Speech and Hearing Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Telehealth Services"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Telephone Evaluation"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Telephone Management"]
["Encounter, Performed": "Telephone Visits"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Alcohol and Drug Dependence Treatment"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Comfort Measures"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Dialysis Education"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Follow Up for Above Normal BMI"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Follow Up for Below Normal BMI"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Hospice care ambulatory"] (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1108.15)
["Intervention, Performed": "Other Services Related to Dialysis"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Palliative or Hospice Care"]
["Intervention, Performed": "Psych Visit - Psychotherapy"]
["Laboratory Test, Performed": "Urine Protein Tests"]
["Medication, Active": "ACE Inhibitor or ARB or ARNI"]
["Medication, Active": "ADHD Medications"]
["Medication, Active": "Androgen deprivation therapy for Urology Care"]
["Medication, Active": "Antibiotic Medications for Pharyngitis"]
["Medication, Active": "Antidepressant Medication"]
["Medication, Active": "Beta Blocker Therapy for LVSD"]
["Medication, Active": "Beta Blocker Therapy"]
["Medication, Active": "Contraceptive Medications"]
["Medication, Active": "Dementia Medications"]
["Medication, Active": "Glucocorticoids (oral only)"]
["Medication, Active": "High Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Active": "Low Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Active": "Moderate Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Active": "Tobacco Use Cessation Pharmacotherapy"]
["Medication, Administered": "Antithrombotic Therapy"]
["Medication, Administered": "Injectable Factor Xa Inhibitor for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Administered": "Low Dose Unfractionated Heparin for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Administered": "Low Molecular Weight Heparin for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Administered": "Oral Factor Xa Inhibitor for VTE Prophylaxis or VTE Treatment"]
["Medication, Administered": "Pharmacological Contraindications For Antithrombotic Therapy"]
["Medication, Administered": "Rivaroxaban and Betrixaban for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Administered": "Thrombolytic (t-PA) Therapy"]
["Medication, Administered": "Warfarin"]
["Medication, Dispensed": "ADHD Medications"]
["Medication, Dispensed": "Antidepressant Medication"]
["Medication, Order": "ACE Inhibitor or ARB or ARNI"]
["Medication, Order": "Antibiotic Medications for Pharyngitis"]
["Medication, Order": "Antithrombotic Therapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Beta Blocker Therapy for LVSD"]
["Medication, Order": "Beta Blocker Therapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Contraceptive Medications"]
["Medication, Order": "High Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Injectable Factor Xa Inhibitor for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Order": "Low Dose Unfractionated Heparin for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Order": "Low Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Low Molecular Weight Heparin for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Order": "Moderate Intensity Statin Therapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Opiate Antagonists"]
["Medication, Order": "Rivaroxaban and Betrixaban for VTE Prophylaxis"]
["Medication, Order": "Tobacco Use Cessation Pharmacotherapy"]
["Medication, Order": "Warfarin"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Atrial Ablation"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Bilateral Mastectomy"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Cardiac Surgery"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Cataract Surgery"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Chemotherapy Administration"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Dialysis Services"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Fluoride Varnish Application for Children"]
["Procedure, Performed": "General or Neuraxial Anesthesia"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Hemodialysis"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Hip Replacement Surgery"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Hysterectomy with No Residual Cervix"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Intravenous or Intra-arterial Thrombolytic (t-PA) Therapy"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Kidney Transplant"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Knee Replacement Surgery"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Parenteral Nutrition"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Peritoneal Dialysis"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Primary THA Procedure"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Primary TKA Procedure"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Prostate Cancer Treatment"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Radiation Treatment Management"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Salvage Therapy"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Unilateral Mastectomy Left"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Unilateral Mastectomy Right"]
["Procedure, Performed": "Vascular Access for Dialysis"]
["Substance, Administered": "Breast Milk"]
["Substance, Administered": "Dietary Intake Other than Breast Milk"]
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021

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