The 2027 Annual Update draft measure specifications are now available. Question and comment on Eligible Clinician eCQMs, Hospital - Inpatient eCQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient eCQM until December 19, 2025.
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["Result": "Nutrition Assessment Status Severely Malnourished"]
Performance/Reporting Period
2024
Value Set Description from VSAC
Clinical Focus: Malnutrition assessment of a patient based upon clinically relevant criteria indicates that an individual is severely malnourished.
Data Element Scope: This set of values indicates that a nutritional diagnosis was determined by a health care professional.
Inclusion Criteria: Malnutrition codes from SNOMED-CT terminology set which represent an individual is severely malnourished.
Exclusion Criteria: All other terminologies related to severe malnutrition except those in SNOMED-CT.
Data Element Scope: This set of values indicates that a nutritional diagnosis was determined by a health care professional.
Inclusion Criteria: Malnutrition codes from SNOMED-CT terminology set which represent an individual is severely malnourished.
Exclusion Criteria: All other terminologies related to severe malnutrition except those in SNOMED-CT.
Constrained to codes in the Nutrition Assessment Status Severely Malnourished value set (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1095.42)
QDM Datatype and Definition
result
The final consequences or data collected from the datatype. results can be used in four ways to express:
- That a result is present in the electronic record but any entry is acceptable
- A numerical result is reported directly as a value. Values may be integers or decimal numbers without units, or as a quantity with a value and units - examples:
- 100mg/dL for a lab test
- 140 mmHg for blood pressure
- as a percentage (actually as a quantity with % as units)
- as a titer or ratio (e.g., 1:4, 1:80)
- A result that matches one of a specific set of coded concepts in a value set or a code that matches a direct reference code
- A result as a dateTime ("Assessment, Performed" and components)
eCQMs using this data element: