ecqm.dataelement

Comfort Measures Performed

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: InterventionPerformed

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document the completion of the intervention indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set. Timing: The Relevant Period addresses: startTime – The time the intervention begins stopTime – The time the intervention ends NOTE - timing refers to a single instance of an intervention. If a measure seeks to evaluate multiple interventions over a period of time, the measure developer should use CQL logic to represent the query request.

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 ComfortMeasuresPerformed

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.

RelevantPeriod

Relevant Period addresses the time between the start of an action to the end of an action. Each datatype using relevant period defines specific definitions for the start and stop time for the action listed.