MatchGrade - HL7 Terminology (THO) v5.5.0

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CodeSystem: MatchGrade

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/match-grade		Version: 1.0.0
Draft as of 2020-04-09	Responsible: Health Level Seven International	Computable Name: MatchGrade
Other Identifiers: urn:ietf:rfc:3986#Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)#urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.1289
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A Master Patient Index (MPI) assessment of whether a candidate patient record is a match or not.

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/match-grade defines the following codes:

Code	Display	Definition
certain	Certain Match	This record meets the matching criteria to be automatically considered as a full match.
probable	Probable Match	This record is a close match, but not a certain match. Additional review (e.g. by a human) may be required before using this as a match.
possible	Possible Match	This record may be a matching one. Additional review (e.g. by a human) SHOULD be performed before using this as a match.
certainly-not	Certainly Not a Match	This record is known not to be a match. Note that usually non-matching records are not returned, but in some cases records previously or likely considered as a match may specifically be negated by the matching engine.