Use Case(s)

A clinician wishes to record the anatomic location of a wound.

Artifact

Wound Anatomic Location Refset

Purpose of Refset

This refset provides a set of anatomic locations to be used in recording and retrieving data about the location(s) of a patient wound(s) observed during physical exam and other patient care.

Examples of what to include

Skin of eye region (body structure)

Examples of what to exclude

Hyperkeratosis (morphologic abnormality) | 26996000

Zero or one OR Zero or more

Only a single location can be recorded for a single wound; i.e. zero or one values of this refset should be used to record a wound location.

Editorial Guidelines

None at this time.

Similar Refsets

None applicable.

Associated Clinical Quality Measures