Stream: implementers
Topic: Non-Patient based Populations in eCQMs
Alexander Kiel (Dec 05 2019 at 18:26):
According to the Quality Measure STU1 for FHIR STU3 IG non-patient based populations are possible. That is done by returning the, in their case, encounters from the, then called InitialPolulation expression. Normally one would have an InInitialPopulation expression just returning true/false for inclusion of each patient.
The following paragraph in section 3.4.1 makes that clear:
In addition to the measure type, measures generally fall into two categories, patient-based, and non-patient-based (e.g. encounter-based). In general, patient-based measures count the number of patients in each population, while non-patient-based measures count the number of items (such as encounters) in each population.
My question is simply whether this is considered possible in a common case or whether this is special to the mentioned IG. I also have the question how it is specified in the Measure resource of which type the populations are. I also ask because this non-patient based populations are not mentioned in Quality Reporting.
@Eric Haas @Floyd Eisenberg @Bryn Rhodes
Bryn Rhodes (Dec 06 2019 at 02:57):
Answered in the CQL stream
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