ecqm.dataelement

Hospice Care Ambulatory Performed

Description:

Clinical Focus: Patients receiving hospice care outside of hospital or long term care facility.

Data Element Scope: The intent of this value set is to identify all patients receiving hospice care outside of hospital or long term care facility . Using the quality data model this maps to 'Intervention, Order' and 'Procedure, Order'.

Inclusion Criteria: All hospice care concepts should be included.

Exclusion Criteria: Do not include concepts for palliative care or comfort measures.

Subject constrained to the Hospice care ambulatory

QDM Datatype: InterventionPerformed

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document the completion of the intervention indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set. Timing: The Relevant Period addresses: startTime – The time the intervention begins stopTime – The time the intervention ends NOTE - timing refers to a single instance of an intervention. If a measure seeks to evaluate multiple interventions over a period of time, the measure developer should use CQL logic to represent the query request.

Used By:

• CMS117v7,
• CMS122v7,
• CMS123v7,
• CMS124v7,
• CMS125v7,
• CMS127v7,
• CMS128v7,
• CMS130v7,
• CMS131v7,
• CMS134v7,
• CMS136v8,
• CMS137v7,
• CMS139v7,
• CMS146v7,
• CMS153v7,
• CMS154v7,
• CMS155v7,
• CMS156v7,
• CMS164v7,
• CMS165v7,
• CMS52v7,
• CMS56v7,
• CMS65v8,
• CMS66v7,
• CMS74v8,
• CMS75v7,
• CMS90v8

QDM Attributes

Subject.Statement

Defined in Activity

DataType

Constrained in HospiceCareAmbulatoryPerformed

HospiceCareAmbulatory

AuthorDatetime

The time the data element was entered into the clinical software. Note, some datatypes include both Relevant Time and Author dateTime attributes. The purpose is to accommodate Author dateTime if the actual start and stop times are not available when evaluating for feasibility, and also to allow specification of a time for Negation Rationale.

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.