ecqm.dataelement

Emergency Department Visit Performed

Description:

Clinical Focus: This set of values identifies procedures representing an emergency department encounter.

Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients who have had an emergency department encounter. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element will map to the 'Encounter' category.

Inclusion Criteria: Include codes representing an emergency department visit encounter utilizing the SNOMED CT code system.

Exclusion Criteria: None

Subject constrained to the Emergency Department Visit

QDM Datatype: EncounterPerformed

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that the encounter indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set is in progress or has been completed. Timing: The Relevant Period addresses: startTime – The time the encounter began (admission time) stopTime – The time the encounter ended (discharge time). The Author dateTime addresses when an Encounter is documented. Documentation can occur at the beginning, during, at the end or subsequent to the end of an Encounter. The Author dateTime should be used only if the Relevant Period cannot be obtained. The Location Period is an attribute of the attribute facility location addresses: startTime = the time the patient arrived at the location; stopTime = the time the patient departed from the location

Used By:

• CMS102v7,
• CMS104v7,
• CMS105v7,
• CMS107v7,
• CMS108v7,
• CMS111v7,
• CMS190v7,
• CMS32v8,
• CMS53v7,
• CMS55v7,
• CMS71v8,
• CMS72v7

Included in Unions:

• MajorDepressiveDisorderEncounter0Union,
• MeasurePopulationExclusionsUnion,
• QualifyingEncounter6Union,
• QualifyingEncounters0Union,
• ValidEncounter13Union,
• ValidEncounter9Union,
• ValidEncountersUnion

QDM Attributes

Subject.Statement

Defined in Activity

DataType

Constrained in EmergencyDepartmentVisitPerformed

EmergencyDepartmentVisit

AdmissionSource

The location from which the patient was admitted (e.g., physician referral, facility from which the patient was transferred).

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.

DischargeDisposition

The disposition, or location to which the patient is transferred at the time of hospital discharge.

PrincipalDiagnosis

The coded diagnosis/problem established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care.