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”

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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