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CodeSystem: EvidenceDirectness

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/directness Version: 2.0.0
Draft as of 2020-04-09 Maturity Level: 0 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: EvidenceDirectness
Other Identifiers: urn:ietf:rfc:3986#Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)#urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.1459

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The quality of how direct the match is.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/directness defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
low Low quality match between observed and intended variableLow matching quality between observed and intended variable, so very serious concern for indirectness in evidence interpretation.
moderate Moderate quality match between observed and intended variableModerate matching quality between observed and intended variable, so serious concern for indirectness in evidence interpretation.
high High quality match between observed and intended variableHigh matching quality between observed and intended variable, so little concern for indirectness in evidence interpretation.
exact Exact match between observed and intended variableExact matching quality between observed and intended variable, so no concern for indirectness in evidence interpretation.

History

DateActionAuthorCustodianComment
2023-11-14reviseMarc DuteauTSMGAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2023-06-19reviseAbdullah RafiqiCDSUpdate EvidenceDirectness CodeSystem display and definition values; up-394
2020-10-14reviseGrahame GrieveVocabulary WGReset Version after migration to UTG
2020-05-06reviseTed KleinVocabulary WGMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.