Value Set

Acronym: QM

Value sets are a subset of concepts (each concept represented by a code) drawn from one or more code systems, where the concepts included in the subset share a common scope of use. The codes and corresponding terms come from standard clinical vocabularies (such as Current Procedural Terminology [CPT], SNOMED CT, RxNorm, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes [LOINC]) and define clinical concepts to support effective and interoperable health information exchange. Value set authors use value sets in quality measures and clinical decision support to collect all the coded concepts that can occur in the clinical record (or administrative data), represent patients or encounters that should be in the same population for analysis, and provide condition-specific diagnostic support and order sets.