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: Severity or Grade CodeSystem based on CTCAE - XML Representation

Draft as of 2023-07-28

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<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/us/codex-radiation-therapy/CodeSystem/codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">0<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-0"> </a></td><td>Absent Adverse Event</td><td>The absence of adverse events or within normal limits or values.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">1<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-1"> </a></td><td>Mild Adverse Event</td><td>An 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.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">2<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-2"> </a></td><td>Moderate Adverse Event</td><td>An 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.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">3<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-3"> </a></td><td>Severe Adverse Event</td><td>An adverse event experience that requires intensive therapeutic intervention and interrupts usual daily activities.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">4<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-4"> </a></td><td>Life Threatening or Disabling Adverse Event</td><td>Any 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.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">5<a name="codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS-5"> </a></td><td>Death Related to Adverse Event</td><td>The termination of life associated with an adverse event.</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/codex-radiation-therapy/CodeSystem/codexrt-radiotheraphy-adverse-event-severity-or-gradeCS"/>
  <version value="1.0.0"/>
  <name value="AdverseEventSeverityOrGradeCS"/>
  <title value="Severity or Grade CodeSystem based on CTCAE"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2023-07-28T13:07:08+00:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 Cross Group Projects Work Group"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="HL7 Cross Group Projects Work Group"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cgp"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="cgplist@lists.HL7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="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."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
      <display value="United States of America"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <count value="6"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="0"/>
    <display value="Absent Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="The absence of adverse events or within normal limits or values."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="1"/>
    <display value="Mild Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="An 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."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="2"/>
    <display value="Moderate Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="An 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."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="3"/>
    <display value="Severe Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="An adverse event experience that requires intensive therapeutic intervention and interrupts usual daily activities."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="4"/>
    <display value="Life Threatening or Disabling Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="Any 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."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="5"/>
    <display value="Death Related to Adverse Event"/>
    <definition
                value="The termination of life associated with an adverse event."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>