Clinical Focus: This set of values contains codes that are used to identify patients with a diagnosis of chronic intestinal malabsorption.
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 regional enteritis, ulcerative enterocolitis, celiac disease, tropical sprue, blind loop syndrome, Pancreatic steatorrhea, and other specified or unspecified intestinal malabsorption disorders.
Exclusion Criteria: Excludes diagnoses of specified disorders of the intestine, including fistula of intesting, ulceration of intesting, performation of intestine, angiodysplasia (with or without hemmorrhage
ResultValue constrained to codes in the Malabsorption Syndromes valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.199.12.1050)
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).