DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Carotid Intervention

Description:
Clinical Focus: This set of values identifies patients who have undergone a carotid artery surgical procedure.
Data Element Scope: Appropriate for use with data elements in QDM Categories or Attributes represented by procedure codes.
Inclusion Criteria: Included are codes that represent carotid intervention surgical procedures.
Exclusion Criteria: Excluded are codes that would not indicate a carotid intervention has been surgically performed.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Carotid Intervention valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.204).
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