Clinical Focus: This grouping of value sets identifies patients who have a venous thromboembolism, including those who have a pulmonary embolism.
Data Element Scope: The intent of this data element is to identify patients who have a venous thromboembolism, including those who have a pulmonary embolism. Using the Quality Data Model, this particular element will map to the Diagnosis category, or the Diagnosis or Principal Diagnosis attribute for the Encounter category.
Inclusion Criteria: Only use codes representing pulmonary embolism and proximal venous thromboembolisms, including specific proximal veins: popliteal vein, femoral/superficial femoral vein, deep femoral vein, ileofemoral vein, iliac vein and inferior vena cava.
Exclusion Criteria: None.
ResultValue constrained to codes in the Venous Thromboembolism valueset (2.16.840.1.113883.3.117.1.7.1.279)
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).