ecqm.dataelement

Decision To Admit To Hospital Inpatient Order

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.

Subject constrained to the Decision to Admit to Hospital Inpatient

QDM Datatype: EncounterOrder

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that an order for the encounter indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set has been recommended. Timing: The time the order is signed; Author dateTime.

Used By:

• CMS111v7

QDM Attributes

Subject.Statement

Defined in Activity

DataType

Constrained in DecisionToAdmitToHospitalInpatientOrder

DecisionToAdmitToHospitalInpatient

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.