ecqm.dataelement

Comfort Measures

Description:

Clinical Focus: This set of values contains care regimes used to define comfort measure care.

Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients receiving comfort measures care. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element would map to the Intervention category.

Inclusion Criteria: Include SNOMEDCT regime and therapy codes for comfort measures, terminal care, dying care, and hospice care.

Exclusion Criteria: None.

ActivityCode constrained to codes in the Comfort Measures valueset (1.3.6.1.4.1.33895.1.3.0.45).

QDM Datatype: Intervention

Intervention represents a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems that does not involve direct physical contact with a patient. Examples include patient education and therapeutic communication.

QDM Attributes

ActivityCode.CodeableConcept

Defined in Activity

Value Set

Constrained in ComfortMeasures

https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/1.3.6.1.4.1.33895.1.3.0.45/expansion (REQUIRED)