DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Intracranial Neurosurgery

Description:
Clinical Focus: This grouping of value sets identifies patients who have procedures of intracranial neurosurgery.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients who have an intracranial neurosurgery procedure. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element will map to the Procedure category.
Inclusion Criteria: Only use codes which represent intracranial neurosurgery.
Exclusion Criteria: None.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Intracranial Neurosurgery valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.260).
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