DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Limited Life Expectancy Diagnosis

Description:
Clinical Focus: This value set contains concepts related to limited life expectancy, including poor prognosis or terminal illness.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients who are deemed to have limited life expectancy. Using the Quality Data Model, this data element would map to the Diagnosis category.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes concepts which convey a poor prognosis for patient’s health status, as well as terminal or pre-terminal illness.
Exclusion Criteria: None
ResultValue constrained to codes in the Limited Life Expectancy valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1259)
QDM Datatype: Diagnosis

Condition/Diagnosis/Problem represents a practitioner’s identification of a patient’s disease, illness, injury, or condition. This category contains a single datatype to represent all of these concepts: Diagnosis. A practitioner determines the diagnosis by means of examination, diagnostic test results, patient history, and/or family history. Diagnoses are usually considered unfavorable, but may also represent neutral or favorable conditions that affect a patient’s plan of care (e.g., pregnancy). The QDM does not prescribe the source of diagnosis data in the EHR. Diagnoses may be found in a patient’s problem list, encounter diagnosis list, claims data, or other sources within the EHR. The preferred terminology for diagnoses is SNOMED-CT, but diagnoses may also be encoded using ICD-9/10. The Diagnosis datatype should not be used for differential diagnoses or rule-out diagnoses (neither of which are currently supported by the QDM).

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