I prefer the V1 as it most closely matches what had been discussed in the previous iteration of diagnosis modifiers, and it allows me to easily search for admit diagnosis or discharge diagnosis, etc. Additionally, I think it will be flexible for adding additional diagnosis types and for grouping the modifiers in different ways. For example, if V2 were to use the exact same modifier codes as V1, I think it could easily be deployed along with V1. Simply adding the modifiers for the primary diagnosis into a separate grouping. Something like: \modifier\primary_dx\ \modifier\primary_dx\billing\ \modifier\primary_dx\billing\Admit Primary Billing Diagnosis - Admit Primary N RA DX|BILL:ADMIT PRIMARY \modifier\primary_dx\billing\Discharge Primary Billing Diagnosis - Discharge Primary N RA DX|BILL:DC PRIMARY \modifier\primary_dx\billing\Professional Primary Billing Diagnosis - Professional Primary N RA DX|PROF:PRIMARY \modifier\nonprimary_dx\ \modifier\nonprimary_dx\billing\ \modifier\nonprimary_dx\billing\Admit Primary Billing Diagnosis - Admit Non-Primary N RA DX|BILL:ADMIT NONPRIMARY \modifier\nonprimary_dx\billing\Discharge Primary Billing Diagnosis - Discharge Non-Primary N RA DX|BILL:DC NONPRIMARY \modifier\nonprimary_dx\billing\Professional Primary Billing Diagnosis - Professional Non-Primary N RA DX|PROF:NONPRIMARY
By adding that to V1, you would be able to search for just primary diagnosis, just secondary, or go into a specific source and get all admit diagnosis. So it would give you have the best of both. Phillip On 12/3/14, 9:45 AM, "GPC Informatics" <[email protected]> wrote: >#90: Diagnoses Modifiers for data attribution >--------------------------+---------------------------- > Reporter: campbell | Owner: lv > Type: design-issue | Status: assigned > Priority: major | Milestone: data-domains2 >Component: data-stds | Resolution: > Keywords: | Blocked By: > Blocking: 70, 91, 120 | >--------------------------+---------------------------- > >Comment (by ngraham): > > Replying to [comment:19 dconnolly]: > > DC: Hubert, Nathan flip coins to load into Babel > I've loaded the modifiers from Nathan A. into Babel. See > ticket:91#comment:26. > >-- >Ticket URL: ><http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/90#comment:20> >gpc-informatics <http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/> >Greater Plains Network - Informatics >_______________________________________________ >Gpc-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://listserv.kumc.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpc-dev ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today. _______________________________________________ Gpc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.kumc.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpc-dev
