Quality Measure Implementation Guide
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This page is part of the Quality Measure Implementation Guide (v2.0.0-ballot: STU 2 Ballot) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This version is a pre-release. The current official version is 1.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: Measure Stratifier Type Codes

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-stratifier-type Version: 1.0.0
Standards status: Trial-use Active as of 2026-04-07 Maturity Level: 4 Computable Name: MeasureStratifierTypeCodes
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.61.16.3

This code system establishes types of stratification for use in identifying subgroups of populations. These stratifications are often, but not exclusively, used in quality measurement.

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

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/measure-stratifier-type defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
age-range Age range Indicates that the stratification should be determined based on age range.
region Region Indicates that the stratification should be determined based on geographical areas.
facility Facility Indicates that the stratification should be determined based on facilities, or specific physical locations.

Description of the above table(s).