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

Performance/Reporting Period
2023
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.
eCQMs using this data element:
CMS104v11 - Discharged on Antithrombotic Therapy
CMS105v11 - Discharged on Statin Medication
CMS71v12 - Anticoagulation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter
CMS996v3 - Appropriate Treatment for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Patients in the Emergency Department (ED)
CMS9v11 - Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding