The Public Comment is now open through March 25, 2026 on the Draft 2027 CMS QRDA I Implementation Guide, Schematron, and Sample File for Hospital Quality Reporting
A QDM attribute provides specific detail about a QDM datatype.
The identifier of a specific instance of any QDM data element. CQL logic uses the id reference to specify that a query expects a specific instance of an element to be retrieved.
See Section 5.8 for examples for using id to indicate specific instances of QDM data elements in CQL statements with the relatedTo attribute.