Use Case(s)
Diseases are often classified according to their severity. For example, mild, moderate, or severe asthma.
Artifact
Clinical Severity Reference Set
Purpose of Refset
The purpose of the reference set is to describe the seriousness of a condition. Resulting LOINC codes 67213-9 | Disease stage and 64750-3 | Severity of symptoms.
Examples of what to include
mild, moderate, severe, life-threatening
Examples of what to exclude
Trends, such as worsening, or episode
Zero or one OR Zero or more
Zero or one
Editorial Guidelines
Children of 272141005 |Severities (qualifier value)|
Similar SOLOR Refsets (assemblages)
Trend reference set
Associated Value Sets
<Any related value set that is already published. How is this refset the same and how is it different? Whenever a new refset is created look in VSAC and see if one already exists? Proposer of refset does a search and lists value set/refset here that the content developer would review.>