Quality Measure Implementation Guide

This page is part of the Quality Measure STU2 for FHIR R4 Implementation Guide (v0.1.0: STU 1 Ballot 1) based on FHIR R3. The current version which supercedes this version is 3.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

MeasureImprovementNotation


<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="improvement-notation"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2>MeasureImprovementNotation</h2><div><p>Improvement notation for a measure (e.g. increase or decrease)</p>
</div><p>This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/CodeSystem/improvement-notation 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">increase<a name="improvement-notation-increase"> </a></td><td>Increase</td><td>Improvement is notated as an *increase* in the measure score</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">decrease<a name="improvement-notation-decrease"> </a></td><td>Decrease</td><td>Improvement is notated as a *decrease* in the measure score</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/CodeSystem/improvement-notation"/>
  <version value="0.1.0"/>
  <name value="MeasureImprovementNotation"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2019-03-15T16:21:03+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="Clinical Quality Information Workgroup"/>
  <description
               value="Improvement notation for a measure (e.g. increase or decrease)"/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
      <display value="United States of America"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet
            value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/ValueSet/improvement-notation"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="increase"/>
    <display value="Increase"/>
    <definition
                value="Improvement is notated as an *increase* in the measure score"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="decrease"/>
    <display value="Decrease"/>
    <definition
                value="Improvement is notated as a *decrease* in the measure score"/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>