CodeX Radiation Therapy
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CodeSystem: Severity or Grade CodeSystem based on CTCAE

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/codex-radiation-therapy/CodeSystem/codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS Version: 1.0.0
Draft as of 2023-07-28 Computable Name: AdverseEventSeverityOrGradeCS

Common terminology criteria (CTC) grades associated with the severity of an adverse event, expressed as integers, 0 through 5, with 0 representing no adverse event, and 5 representing death.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/codex-radiation-therapy/CodeSystem/codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
0 Absent Adverse EventThe absence of adverse events or within normal limits or values.
1 Mild Adverse EventAn experience that is usually transient, and requires no special treatment or intervention. The event does not generally interfere with usual daily activities. Includes transient laboratory test alterations.
2 Moderate Adverse EventAn experience that is alleviated with simple therapeutic treatments. The event impacts usual daily activities. Includes laboratory test alterations indicating injury, but without long-term risk.
3 Severe Adverse EventAn adverse event experience that requires intensive therapeutic intervention and interrupts usual daily activities.
4 Life Threatening or Disabling Adverse EventAny adverse event that places the patient, in the view of the initial reporter, at immediate risk of death from the adverse event as it occurred, i.e., it does not include an adverse experience that, had it occurred in a more severe form, might have caused death.
5 Death Related to Adverse EventThe termination of life associated with an adverse event.