QI-Core Implementation Guide
5.0.0-ballot - STU Ballot US

This page is part of the Quality Improvement Core Framework (v5.0.0-ballot: STU 5 Ballot 1) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 4.1.1. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

: QICore Encounter Clinical Discharge Disposition Codes - XML Representation

Draft as of 2022-07-04

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<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="qicore-encounter-discharge-disposition"/>
  <meta>
    <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablevalueset"/>
  </meta>
  <text>
    <status value="extensions"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html"><code>http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/discharge-disposition</code></a><table class="none"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-home">home</a></td><td>Home</td><td>The patient was dicharged and has indicated that they are going to return home afterwards.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-alt-home">alt-home</a></td><td>Alternative home</td><td>The patient was discharged and has indicated that they are going to return home afterwards, but not the patient's home - e.g. a family member's home.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-other-hcf">other-hcf</a></td><td>Other healthcare facility</td><td>The patient was transferred to another healthcare facility.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-hosp">hosp</a></td><td>Hospice</td><td>The patient has been discharged into palliative care.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-long">long</a></td><td>Long-term care</td><td>The patient has been discharged into long-term care where is likely to be monitored through an ongoing episode-of-care.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-aadvice">aadvice</a></td><td>Left against advice</td><td>The patient self discharged against medical advice.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-exp">exp</a></td><td>Expired</td><td>The patient has deceased during this encounter.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-psy">psy</a></td><td>Psychiatric hospital</td><td>The patient has been transferred to a psychiatric facility.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-rehab">rehab</a></td><td>Rehabilitation</td><td>The patient was discharged and is to receive post acute care rehabilitation services.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-discharge-disposition.html#discharge-disposition-snf">snf</a></td><td>Skilled nursing facility</td><td>The patient has been discharged to a skilled nursing facility for the patient to receive additional care.</td></tr></table></li></ul></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/qicore/ValueSet/qicore-encounter-discharge-disposition"/>
  <version value="5.0.0-ballot"/>
  <name value="QICoreEncounterClinicalDischargeDisposition"/>
  <title value="QICore Encounter Clinical Discharge Disposition Codes"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2022-07-04"/>
  <publisher value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cqi/index.cfm"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="Clinical Quality Information WG"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cqi"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="This value set defines a set of codes that can be used to where the patient left the hospital."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system
              value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/discharge-disposition"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="home"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="alt-home"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="other-hcf"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="hosp"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="long"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="aadvice"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="exp"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="psy"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="rehab"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="snf"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>