HL7 Terminology
2.1.0 - Publication

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CodeSystem: CDC - National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) code system

Summary

Defining URL:http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/cdcNHSN
Version:2.0.0
Name:CdcNHSN
Title:CDC - National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) code system
Status:Active as of 2019-03-20T00:00:00-04:00
Definition:

CDC - National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) code system - A set of patient safety and healthcare personnel safety vocabulary concepts and associated identifiers maintained as a code system by the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. CDC NHSN is planning to use these code system concepts in the HAI implementation guide. These concepts would be submitted for the HL7 Ballot (Dec 2008). CDC NHSN can provide complete list of concepts, identifiers and extended attributes for this code system.

Publisher:TBD - External Body
Content:Not Present: None of the concepts defined by the code system are included in the code system resource
OID:2.16.840.1.113883.6.277 (for OID based terminology systems)
Source Resource:XML / JSON / Turtle

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

This CodeSystem is not used here; it may be used elsewhere (e.g. specifications and/or implementations that use this content)

This code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/cdcNHSN defines many codes, but they are not represented here