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facilityLocation

A QDM attribute provides specific detail about a QDM datatype.

Performance/Reporting Period
2022
QDM Definition (QDM Version 5.5 Guidance Update):
The particular locations in a facility in which the diagnostic study or encounter occurs or occurred. Examples include intensive care units (ICUs), nonICUs, burn critical care unit, neonatal ICU, and respiratory care unit. Each "Encounter, Performed" may have one or more locations. For example, a patient treated in multiple locations during an individual encounter might be expressed as:
  • "Encounter, Performed": Inpatient Admission, facility locations
    • ICU (locationPeriod)
    • Non-ICU Admission (locationPeriod)
    • Rehab (locationPeriod)
Last Updated: Jul 08, 2021