Functional stress test—assessment of cardiac perfusion, code N[N]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Functional stress test assessment of cardiac perfusion
Synonymous names:	Functional stress test method
METEOR identifier:	344432
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/10/2008
Definition:	The method of functional assessment of cardiac perfusion undertaken in a person's stress test, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Functional stress test—assessment of cardiac perfusion

Value domain attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Exercise tolerance
2	Pharmacological

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
9	Not stated/inadequately described

Guide for use:

CODE 1 Exercise tolerance

Use this code when a treadmill, bicycle or arm-exercise was used to increase the cardiac work.

CODE 2 Pharmacological

Use this code when any form of pharmacologic augmentation was used to increase cardiac work. For example, dobutamine, atropine or persantin.

CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described

Not for use in primary data collections.

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

DSS specific attributes +
*Conditional obligation:* To be provided when a functional stress test is performed.