Term Description

Indicates whether a patient's visit is an initial or follow-visit. An episode of care begins with the initial visit for care for a particular problem and ends when the patient is no longer continuing treatment. An initial visit may be diagnostic in nature whereas a follow-up visit may be to check progress or continue therapy. This term was created for, but not limited in use to, the Episode of Care observation in the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: National Health Care Surveys Release 1.

LOINC Names Get Info

Fully-Specified Name
Type of encounter:Type:Pt:^Patient:Nom:
Long Common Name
Episode of care Type

Part Model Get Info

  • Component
    Type of encounter
    LP97056-3
    • Analyte
      Type of encounter
      LP97056-3
      • Component Numerator
        Type of encounter
        LP97056-3
        • Component Numerator Core
          Type of encounter
          LP97056-3
        • Component Numerator Core Suffix
          NULL
           
      • Component Denominator
        NULL
         
        • Component Denominator Core
          NULL
           
        • Component Denominator Core Suffix
          NULL
           
    • Challenge
      NULL
       
    • Adjustment
      NULL
       
    • Count
      NULL
       
  • Property
    Type
    LP6886-8
  • Time
    Pt
    LP6960-1
  • System
    ^Patient
    LP310005-6
    • System Core
      NULL
       
    • Super System
      Patient
      LP6985-8
  • Scale
    Nom
    LP7750-5
  • Method
    NULL
     

Preferred Answer List: LL3034-7

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
AnswerCodeScoreAnswer ID
Initial patient assessment11LA21589-9
Follow-up visit22LA21590-7
UnknownCopyright http://snomed.info/sct ID:261665006 Unknown (qualifier value)33LA4489-6

Basic Attributes

Class
SURVEY.NHCS
Type
Surveys
First Released
Version 2.52
Last Updated
Version 2.70 (MIN)
Order vs. Observation
Observation

Member of these Panels

LOINCLong Common Name
81958-1National Health Care Surveys report R1 - recommended CDA set

LOINC Terminology Service (API) using HL7® FHIR® Get Info

CodeSystem lookup
https://fhir.loinc.org/CodeSystem/$lookup?system=http://loinc.org&code=78030-4