ecqm.dataelement

Palliative Care Encounter Performed

Description:

Clinical Focus: This value set is intended to capture an encounter for palliative care.

Data Element Scope: Appropriate for use with data elements in QDM Categories or Attributes represented by procedure codes.

Inclusion Criteria: Includes palliative care encounter.

Exclusion Criteria: Excludes codes that do not meet the inclusion criteria.

Subject constrained to the Palliative care encounter

QDM Datatype: EncounterPerformed

Data elements that meet criteria using this datatype should document that the encounter indicated by the QDM category and its corresponding value set is in progress or has been completed. Timing: The Relevant Period addresses: startTime – The time the encounter began (admission time) stopTime – The time the encounter ended (discharge time). The Author dateTime addresses when an Encounter is documented. Documentation can occur at the beginning, during, at the end or subsequent to the end of an Encounter. The Author dateTime should be used only if the Relevant Period cannot be obtained. The Location Period is an attribute of the attribute facility location addresses: startTime = the time the patient arrived at the location; stopTime = the time the patient departed from the location

Used By:

• CMS159v7,
• CMS160v7,
• CMS347v2,
• CMS69v7

Included in Unions:

• PalliativeCareOrderorEncounterUnion

QDM Attributes

Subject.Statement

Defined in Activity

DataType

Constrained in PalliativeCareEncounterPerformed

PalliativeCareEncounter

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.