Person with acute coronary syndrome—pharmacotherapy type taken post discharge from hospital, code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Pharmacotherapy type taken for acute coronary syndrome post discharge |
METEOR identifier: | 344822 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/10/2008 |
Definition: | The type of pharmacotherapy being taken by a person for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome following discharge from hospital, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person with acute coronary syndrome—pharmacotherapy type taken post discharge from hospital |
Value Domain: | Acute coronary syndrome pharmacotherapy type taken post discharge code N[N] |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | A person may be taking one or more type of medication for acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Therefore more than one code may be recorded. |
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Collection methods: | Following a person's hospital stay for ACS, follow-up consultations with a clinician may occur at various intervals, such as 3, 6 or 12 months after discharge from hospital. The medications being taken by the person at the time of each follow-up consultation should be recorded. |
Comments: | The pharmacotherapies for the treatment of ACS that could be taken post discharge from hospital are different from the types that could be taken during the hospital stay as not all of the pharmacotherapies used for the treatment of ACS are for out of hospital use. |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Acute coronary syndrome pharmacotherapy data cluster Health, Standard 01/10/2008 DSS specific information: To be provided at the follow-up visit following discharge from the hospital for each of the relevant pharmacotherapy types prescribed. |
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