 description | A comprehensive classification of locations and settings where healthcare services are provided. This value set is based on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) location code system that has been developed over a number of years through CDC's interaction with a variety of healthcare facilities and is intended to serve a variety of reporting needs where coding of healthcare service locations is required.
Value Set: HealthcareServiceLocation 2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20275 DYNAMIC
Code System(s): HealthcareServiceLocation 2.16.840.1.113883.6.259
Code Code System Print Name
1024-9 HealthcareServiceLocation Critical Care Unit
1117-1 HealthcareServiceLocation Family Medicine Clinic
1128-8 HealthcareServiceLocation Pediatric Clinic
1160-1 HealthcareServiceLocation Urgent Care Center | This value set consolidates encounter type codes from the two code systems permitted by USCDI for representing encounter location, as specified in USCDI v5.(https://www.healthit.gov/isp/taxonomy/term/1336/uscdi-v5) | |
| purpose | (Clinical Focus: Concepts representing locations and settings where healthcare services are provided. This includes non- (or atypical) patient care locations where emergency services may be provided.
The values are derived from the NHSN Healthcare Facility Patient Care Location code system.),(Data Element Scope: Location),(Inclusion Criteria: All codes in code system),(Exclusion Criteria: Codes that do not represent an actual location where health care services can be delivered, IE: Float, or a location aggregation.) | (Clinical Focus: This value set includes SNOMED CT and NHSN concepts representing the types of locations and organizational settings where healthcare services, encounters, or treatments occur. It spans a wide range of settings—including inpatient, outpatient, facility-wide, community, and atypical locations where emergency or unscheduled care may be provided.),(Data Element Scope: Facility locations including patient Locations, Outpatient Locations, Facility-Wide Locations, and Community Locations.),(Inclusion Criteria: SCT concepts descending from 43741000 | Site of care (environment) and all codes in HSLOC code system),(Exclusion Criteria: Codes that do not represent an actual location where health care services can be delivered, IE: Float, or a location aggregation.) | |
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