Quality Measure Implementation Guide (STU3 Ballot)
2.1.0 - ballot

This page is part of the Quality Measure STU2 for FHIR R4 Implementation Guide (v2.1.0: STU3 Ballot 1) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 3.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: Measure Aggregate Method

Summary

Defining URL:http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/CodeSystem/aggregate-method
Version:2.1.0
Name:MeasureAggregateMethod
Title:Measure Aggregate Method
Status:Active as of 2019-03-14T23:21:03-06:00
Definition:

Aggregation method for a measure (e.g. sum, average, median, minimum, maximum, count)

Publisher:Clinical Quality Information WG
Content:Complete: All the concepts defined by the code system are included in the code system resource
Value Set:http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/ValueSet/aggregate-method ( is the value set for all codes in this code system)
Source Resource:XML / JSON / Turtle

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/CodeSystem/aggregate-method defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
sum SumThe measure score is determined by adding together the observations derived from the measure population.
average AverageThe measure score is determined by taking the average of the observations derived from the measure population.
median MedianThe measure score is determined by taking the median of the observations derived from the measure population.
minimum MinimumThe measure score is determined by taking the minimum of the observations derived from the measure population.
maximum MaximumThe measure score is determined by taking the maximum of the observations derived from the measure population.
count CountThe measure score is determined as the number of observations derived from the measure population.