DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Decision To Admit To Hospital Inpatient

Description:
Clinical Focus: This grouping of value sets identifies procedures that are commonly used for capturing an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element will map to the 'Encounter' category.
Inclusion Criteria: Include codes representing an emergency decision to admit a patient to an inpatient hospital setting utilizing the SNOMED CT system.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclude codes that do not meet the inclusion criteria.
ActivityCode constrained to codes in the Decision to Admit to Hospital Inpatient valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.295).
QDM Datatype: Encounter

Encounter represents an identifiable grouping of healthcare-related activities characterized by the entity relationship between the subject of care and a healthcare provider; such a grouping is determined by the healthcare provider.13 A patient encounter represents interaction between a healthcare provider and a patient with a face-to-face patient visit to a clinician’s office, or any electronically remote interaction with a clinician for any form of diagnostic treatment or therapeutic event. Encounters can be billable events but are not limited to billable interactions. Each encounter has an associated location or modality within which it occurred (such as an office, home, electronic methods, phone encounter, or telemedicine methods). The encounter location is the patient’s location at the time of measurement. Different levels of interaction can be specified in the value associated with the element while modes of interaction (e.g., telephone) may be modeled using the data flow attribute.