US Core

US Core Implementation Guide (Release 1)

This page is part of the US Core (v1.0.0: STU1) based on FHIR R3. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.1. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Defining URL:

http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/us-core-condition-category

Name:

US Core Condition Category Codes

Definition:

The US core Condition Category Codes support the separate concepts of problems and health concerns in Condition.category in order for API consumers to be able to separate health concerns and problems. However this is not mandatory for 2015 certification

Publisher:

HL7 US Realm Steering Committee

Source Resource

XML / JSON / Turtle

This value set is used by:

US Core Condition (a.k.a Problem) Profile

US Core Condition Category Codes

The US core Condition Category Codes support the separate concepts of problems and health concerns in Condition.category in order for API consumers to be able to separate health concerns and problems. However this is not mandatory for 2015 certification

This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

Include all codes defined in http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-category

Include these codes as defined in http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/CodeSystem/condition-category

Code	Display
problem	Problem	The patients problems as identified by the provider(s). Items on the provider’s problem list
health-concern	Health Concern	Additional health concerns from other stakeholders which are outside the provider’s problem list.

Expansion

This value set contains 4 concepts

Expansion based on http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-category version 3.0.0, http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/CodeSystem/condition-category version 1.0.0

Code	System	Display	Definition
problem-list-item	http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-category	Problem List Item	An item on a problem list which can be managed over time and can be expressed by a practitioner (e.g. physician, nurse), patient, or related person.
encounter-diagnosis	http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-category	Encounter Diagnosis	A point in time diagnosis (e.g. from a physician or nurse) in context of an encounter.
problem	http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/CodeSystem/condition-category	Problem	The patients problems as identified by the provider(s). Items on the provider’s problem list
health-concern	http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/CodeSystem/condition-category	Health Concern	Additional health concerns from other stakeholders which are outside the provider’s problem list.