ecqm.dataelement

Male Patient Characteristic Gender

Description:

Clinical Focus: Concepts that represent Male when assessing quality measures

Data Element Scope: Gender

Inclusion Criteria: Appropriate male gender concepts

Exclusion Criteria: concepts representing Female gender

ResultValue constrained to codes in the Male valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.560.100.1)

QDM Datatype: PatientCharacteristicGender

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that the patient's sex matches the QDM category and its corresponding value set. Timing: Birth (administrative) sex does not have a specific timing.

Used By:

• CMS129v8,
• CMS645v2

QDM Attributes

ResultValue.CodeableConcept

Defined in Observation

Value Set

Constrained in MalePatientCharacteristicGender

https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113883.3.560.100.1/expansion (REQUIRED)