DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis

Description:
Clinical Focus: This set of values contains diagnosis codes that are used to identify patients with Rheumatoid arthritis.
Data Element Scope: This value set is developed for the diagnosis QDM datatype. It can potentially be used for other datatypes as well.
Inclusion Criteria: Includes rheumatoid arthritis and felty's syndrome. Includes comorbidities occuring with rheumatoid arthritis, such as rheumatoid polyneuropathy, rheumatoid myopathy, rheumatoid heart disease, rheumatoid vasculitis, and rheumatoid lung disease.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclude codes for Juvenile chronic polyarthritis, Chronic postrheumatic arthropathy, or inflammatory polyarhtropathy.
ResultValue constrained to codes in the Rheumatoid Arthritis valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.113.12.1005)
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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