DER Reference Model Version 1.0.0
ecqm.dataelement

Ventricular Assist Device Placement

Description:
Clinical Focus: This grouping value set contains procedures used to identify the placement of a ventricular assist device.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify procedures for ventricular assist device placement. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element would map to the Procedure, Performed datatype.
Inclusion Criteria: Include codes that identify patients with ventricular assist device placement. This is a grouping of ICD-10-PCS and SNOMEDCT codes.
Exclusion Criteria: None.
ObservableCode constrained to codes in the Ventricular Assist Device placement valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.666.5.3015).
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