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

Patient Care

Work Group

Maturity Level: 3

Trial Use

Use Context: Any

This is a code system defined by the FHIR project.

Summary

Defining URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/allergy-intolerance-criticality

Version: 4.4.0

Name: AllergyIntoleranceCriticality

Title: AllergyIntoleranceCriticality

Definition:

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

Committee: Patient Care Work Group

OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.130 (for OID based terminology systems)

Source Resource XML / JSON

This Code system is used in the following value sets:

ValueSet: AllergyIntoleranceCriticality (Estimate of the potential clinical harm, or seriousness, of a reaction to an identified substance.)

4.3.14.60.1 Content

4.3.14.60.2 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:

Code	Display	Definition
low	Low Risk	Worst case result of a future exposure is not assessed to be life-threatening or having high potential for organ system failure.
high	High Risk	Worst 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 Risk	Unable to assess the worst case result of a future exposure.

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Display

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Definition

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Comments

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