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CodeSystem: Detected Issue Severity

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/detectedissue-severity Version: 2.0.0
Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 3 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: DetectedIssueSeverity
Other Identifiers: urn:ietf:rfc:3986#Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)#http://hl7.org/fhir/detectedissue-severity (use: old), OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.207 (use: old), OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.197 (use: old), OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.105 (use: old)

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Indicates the potential degree of impact of the identified issue on the patient.

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

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/detectedissue-severity defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
high High Indicates the issue may be life-threatening or has the potential to cause permanent injury.
moderate Moderate Indicates the issue may result in noticeable adverse consequences but is unlikely to be life-threatening or cause permanent injury.
low Low Indicates the issue may result in some adverse consequences but is unlikely to substantially affect the situation of the subject.
action-contraindicated Action Contraindicated Indicates the issue is identifying a clinical action that is contraindicated, i.e. the issue is so severe that the clinical action generally should not be undertaken.

Description of the above table(s).


History

DateActionAuthorCustodianComment
2026-10-25reviseHoward StrasbergCDSAdd two new values to Detected Issue Severity code system; up-849
2026-06-13createBryn RhodesCDSMove DetectedIssue code systems and value sets to THO; up-812