ecqm.dataelement

Followup Within One Year

Description:

Clinical Focus: This set of values is meant to collect data that a follow-up encounter or visit was written or scheduled within the time period of one year of the initial encounter.

Data Element Scope:

Inclusion Criteria:

Exclusion Criteria:

ActivityCode constrained to codes in the Followup within one year valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.600.1474).

QDM Datatype: Intervention

Intervention represents a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems that does not involve direct physical contact with a patient. Examples include patient education and therapeutic communication.

QDM Attributes

ActivityCode.CodeableConcept

Defined in Activity

Value Set

Constrained in FollowupWithinOneYear

https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113883.3.600.1474/expansion (REQUIRED)