DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Gastric Bypass Surgery

Description:
Clinical Focus: This set of values contains codes that can be used to identify patients who have undergone a partial or total removeal of the stomach by either a laparoscopic or open method.
Data Element Scope: This value set is developed for the procedure QDM datatype. It can potentially be used for other datatypes as well.
Inclusion Criteria: Include codes that identify procedures for repair or removal of digestive system organs that include a partial or total removal of the stomach.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclude endoscopic excision of tissue of stomach, excision/laparoscopic wedge resection of lesion of stomach, and incisional biopsy of stomach.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Gastric Bypass Surgery valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.198.12.1050).
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