DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Atrial Ablation

Description:
Clinical Focus: This grouping value set represents atrial ablation procedures.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients with a history of atrial ablation procedure. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element would map to the Procedure category.
Inclusion Criteria: Include codes that identify patients with a history of atrial ablation procedure. This is a grouping of ICD10CM and SNOMEDCT codes.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclude codes that do not meet the inclusion criteria.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Atrial Ablation valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.203).
QDM Datatype: Procedure

Procedure is derived directly from HL7 and Canada Health Infoway: “An Act whose immediate and primary outcome (post-condition) is the alteration of the physical condition of the subject. ... Procedure is but one among several types of clinical activities such as observation, substance- administrations, and communicative interactions ... Procedure does not comprise all acts of [sic] whose intent is intervention or treatment.”17 A procedure may be a surgery or other type of physical manipulation of a person’s body in whole or in part for purposes of making observations and diagnoses or providing treatment