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4.2.11.51 Code System http://hl7.org/fhir/allergy-intolerance-criticality

This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.

Summary

Defining URL:http://hl7.org/fhir/allergy-intolerance-criticality
Name:AllergyIntoleranceCriticality
Definition:Estimate of the potential clinical harm, or seriousness, of a reaction to an identified substance.
Committee:Patient Care Work Group
OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.51 (for OID based terminology systems)
Source ResourceXML / JSON

This Code system is used in the following value sets:

4.2.11.51.1 Content

4.2.11.51.2 AllergyIntoleranceCriticality

Estimate of the potential clinical harm, or seriousness, of a reaction to an identified substance.

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/allergy-intolerance-criticality defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
low Low RiskWorst case result of a future exposure is not assessed to be life-threatening or having high potential for organ system failure.
high High RiskWorst case result of a future exposure is assessed to be life-threatening or having high potential for organ system failure.
unable-to-assess Unable to Assess RiskUnable to assess the worst case result of a future exposure.

 

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LevelA few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies
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