DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Hip Replacement Surgery

Description:
Clinical Focus: This grouping of value sets identifies patients who have total hip replacement procedures.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients who have a total hip replacement procedure. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element will map to the Procedure category.
Inclusion Criteria: Only use codes which represent the surgical procedure of a total hip replacement.
Exclusion Criteria: None.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Hip Replacement Surgery valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.259).
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