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["Facility Locations": "Intensive Care Unit"]

Performance/Reporting Period
2024
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: The purpose of this value set is to represent concepts of locations of adult or pediatric intensive care units (ICUs).
Data Element Scope: This value set may use a model element related to Encounter.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes concepts that represent a location for an adult or pediatric intensive care unit (ICU).
Exclusion Criteria: Excludes concepts that represent neonatal intensive care units (NICU).

Constrained to codes in the Intensive Care Unit value set (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1029.206)

QDM Datatype and Definition

facilityLocations

The particular locations in a facility in which the diagnostic study or encounter occurs or occurred. Examples include intensive care units (ICUs), non-ICUs, 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: Jun 29, 2023