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Use Case(s)

A clinician wishes to record the quantity of a wound exudate.

Artifact

Wound exudate qualitative amount reference setrefset

Purpose

Provide values for recording and retrieving clinical observations / findings / ‘uber-observations’ phenomena that come about from a clinician examining a patient with a wound. 

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Large = wound tissues bathed in fluid; drainage freely expressed; may or may not be evenly distributed in wound; drainage involves > 75% of dressing.

Examples of included content

“Wound exudate - None”

Examples of excluded content (counterexamples)

“Scant”, “Heavy, foul-smelling wound exudate”

Editorial guidelines to cover this domain

Qualitative content that references widely used scales and/or questionnaires should reference an authoritative source that provides unambiguous (e.g. quantitative) meanings for the content. If there are no such sources, then the content ideally should be somehow annotated to give unambiguous, definite meanings to the concepts.

Zero or one OR Zero or more

Only one value of this refset can be selected.

Editorial Guidelines

Concepts are based on the Bates-Jenson assessment tool for wound exudate amount.

Similar Refsets

Not applicable.

Associated Clinical Quality Measures

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