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["Discharge Disposition": "Discharge To Acute Care Facility"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2022
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: The purpose of this value set is to represent concepts for an encounter with the discharge of a patient to an acute care facility.
Data Element Scope: This value set may use a model element related to Encounter.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes concepts that represent an encounter with a discharge to a short-term acute care hospital, including a specialty hospital.
Exclusion Criteria: No exclusions.

Constrained to codes in the Discharge Disposition: Discharge To Acute Care Facility value set (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.87)

QDM Datatype and Definition

dischargeDisposition

The disposition, or location to which the patient is transferred at the time of hospital discharge.