ecqm.dataelement

Comfort Measures Order

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.

Subject constrained to the Comfort Measures

QDM Datatype: InterventionOrder

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document a request to perform the intervention indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set. Timing: The time the order is signed; Author dateTime

Used By:

• CMS102v7,
• CMS104v7,
• CMS105v7,
• CMS107v7,
• CMS108v7,
• CMS190v7,
• CMS71v8,
• CMS72v7

Included in Unions:

• DenominatorExclusions3Union,
• InterventionComfortMeasuresUnion

QDM Attributes

Subject.Statement

Defined in Activity

DataType

Constrained in ComfortMeasuresOrder

ComfortMeasures

AuthorDatetime

The time the data element was entered into the clinical software. Note, some datatypes include both Relevant Time and Author dateTime attributes. The purpose is to accommodate Author dateTime if the actual start and stop times are not available when evaluating for feasibility, and also to allow specification of a time for Negation Rationale.