DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Delivery Procedure

Description:
Clinical Focus: This set of values contain codes commonly used in the outpatient setting to identify patients who had a live birth or delivery.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is identify patients who had a live birth or delivery. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element would map to the 'Procedure, Performed' element.
Inclusion Criteria: The codes used in this value set can be reasonably used to identify patients who had a live birth or delivery.
Exclusion Criteria: None
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Delivery - Procedure valueset (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1078.5).
QDM Datatype: Procedure

Procedure is derived directly from HL7 and Canada Health Infoway: “An Act whose immediate and primary outcome (post-condition) is the alteration of the physical condition of the subject. ... Procedure is but one among several types of clinical activities such as observation, substance- administrations, and communicative interactions ... Procedure does not comprise all acts of [sic] whose intent is intervention or treatment.”17 A procedure may be a surgery or other type of physical manipulation of a person’s body in whole or in part for purposes of making observations and diagnoses or providing treatment