HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Common Terminology Criteria (CTC) Adverse Events Release 1 - DRAFT
0.0.1 - DRAFT
HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Common Terminology Criteria (CTC) Adverse Events Release 1 - DRAFT, published by HL7 International Clinical Interoperability Council. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/standardhealth/fsh-ae/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Contents:
This page provides a list of the FHIR artifacts defined as part of this implementation guide.
Adverse event related profiles
CTC Adverse Event |
Profile of adverse event, using Common Terminology Criteria (CTC). |
These define AE extensions to some of the above profiles.
Adverse Event Expectation |
A determination if the adverse event is or is not one whose nature and severity have been previously observed, identified in nature, severity, or frequency, and documented in the investigator brochure, investigational plan, protocol, current consent form, scientific publication, or in other relevant and reliable document. |
Adverse Event Participant |
Participant can be used to represent the approver of the adverse event |
Adverse Event Resolved Date |
The date (and time) when the adverse event ends or returns to baseline (NCI Thesaurus). |
Adverse Event Seriousness Outcome |
The reason an adverse event is serious |
CTC Adverse Event Grade |
The grade associated with the severity of an adverse event, using CTCAE criteria. The code ‘0’ representing no adverse event may be used to provide positive confirmation that the clinician assessed or considered this particular AE, although the absence of an adverse event is generally not reportable. See https://ctep.cancer.gov/protocolDevelopment/electronic_applications/ctc.htm |
These define sets of codes used by systems conforming with this implementation guide. Comorbid condition-related value sets appear in a separate section below.
Adverse Event Expectation Value Set |
An expected adverse event is one whose nature and severity have been previously observed, identified in nature, severity, or frequency, and documented in the investigator brochure, investigational plan, protocol, current consent form, scientific publication, or in other relevant and reliable document. An unexpected adverse event is one that has not been previously observed, whether or not the event was anticipated because of the pharmacologic properties of the study agent or the nature of the medical procedure. This includes events that are more serious than expected or occur more frequently than expected, particularly, any adverse experience, the nature, severity or frequency of which is not consistent with the product label, or with the current investigator brochure for investigational agent; or with the risk information described in the investigational plan or protocol or consent form (NCI Thesaurus). |
Adverse Event Participant Function |
This value set includes codes that describe the type of involvement of the actor in the adverse event |
Adverse Event Relatedness Value Set |
Codes qualifying the adverse event’s relationship to the medical intervention, according to WHO causality assessment criteria: it is applicable to a clinical event, including laboratory test abnormality, occurs in a plausible time relationship to medical intervention, and cannot be explained by concurrent disease or other interventions. |
Adverse Event Seriousness Outcome Value Set |
The outcome of a serious adverse event |
Adverse Event Seriousness Value Set |
An adverse event is classified as serious or non-serious. It is considered serious if it results in any of the following outcomes: (1) Death, (2) Life-threatening experience, 3) Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization (for > 24 hours), (4) Persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions, (5) Congenital anomaly/birth defect, or (6) Important Medical Event (IME) that may jeopardize the patient or subject and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed in this definition (reference: https://crawb.crab.org/txwb/CRA_MANUAL/Vol1/chapter%2013_Serious%20Adverse%20Events.pdf). |
CTCAE Grade Value Set |
CTCAE Grades 0 through 5. The grade of the adverse event, determined by CTCAE criteria, where 0 represents confirmation that the given adverse event did NOT occur, and 5 represents death. Note that grade 0 events are generally not reportable, but may be created to give positive confirmation that the clinician assessed or considered a particular AE. |
CTCAE Terms Value Set |
The NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) is utilized for Adverse Event (AE) reporting. The codes are drawn from the NCI Thesaurus. Each CTCAE term is a MedDRA LLT (Lowest Level Term) with corresponding codes that can be used in place of the NCI code. The value set is CTCAE 5.0 and corresponds to MedDRA version 20.1. See https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/CTCAE/CTCAE_5.0/NCIt_CTCAE_5.0.xlsx. Use of ‘Other, specify’: In the event a suitable CTCAE term cannot be found, the appropriate verbatim term SHALL be captured via the ‘Other, specify’ mechanism. In this case, the verbatim term is populated into the event.text field, the NCIT code for the body system into the event.coding.code field, and the display string corresponding to the code into the event.coding.display field. For example, if reporting the unusual adverse event ‘Vulcan-green blood’ it will be reported as: event.text of ‘Vulcan-green blood’, event.coding.display of ‘Blood and lymphatic system disorders - Other, specify’, and event.coding.code of NCIT code C143323. |
These define new code systems used by systems conforming with this implementation guide
CTCAE Grade Code System |
Common terminology criteria (CTC) grades associated with the severity of an adverse event, expressed as integers, 0 through 5, with 0 representing no adverse event, and 5 representing death. |
Examples of resources conforming to a CTCAE AdverseEvent profile.
ctc-adverse-event-example-1 |
Grade 2 dehydration attributed to gefitinib |
ctc-adverse-event-example-2 |
Non-occurrence of anemia |
ctc-adverse-event-example-3 |
Grade 3 dehydration attributed to gefitinib |
Examples of resources from other profiles (e.g. mCODE) or FHIR core resources which support the persona. These examples are independent (i.e., there is no expectation of consistency of data among the resources).
patient-example-kaitlyn-b |
Compass Trial example patient Kaitlyn |
PatientPersona2 |
Example for Patient |
PractitionerExample1 |
Example for Practitioner |
These are example instances that show what data produced and consumed by systems conforming with this implementation guide might look like.
Alliance COMPASS Trial A011801 |
Alliance COMPASS Protocol A011801 |
OrganizationExample1 |
Example for Organization |
Standard of Care Protocol 0U812 |
Standard of Care Protocol 0U812 |
ae-bundle-kaitlyn-compass-trial |
Extended AdverseEvent example as a Patient Bundle for Compass Trial |
ae-bundle-persona-2 |
Extended AdverseEvent example as a Patient Bundle |
cancer-related-medication-request-doxorubicin2-persona-2 |
Extended example: example showing chemotherapy medication |
ctc-adverse-event-anemia1-persona-2 |
Anemia grade 2 |
ctc-adverse-event-anemia2-persona-2 |
Anemia grade 1 |
ctc-adverse-event-compass-ex1 |
Grade 1 ALT |
ctc-adverse-event-compass-ex1a |
Grade 3 ALT |
ctc-adverse-event-compass-ex1b |
ALT back to grade 1 and resolved |
ctc-adverse-event-compass-ex2 |
Grade 1 Nausea/vomiting |
ctc-adverse-event-nausea1-persona-2 |
Nausea grade 1 |
ctc-adverse-event-neutropenia1-persona-2 |
Neutropenia grade 3 |
ctc-adverse-event-neutropenia2-persona-2 |
Neutropenia grade 0 |
diagnosticreport-cbc-201-1-persona2 |
CBC Diagnostic Report |
diagnosticreport-cbc-202-1-persona2 |
CBC Diagnostic Report |
encounter-ae1-evaluation-persona2 |
Encounter identifying adverse events after A-C cycle 1 |
kaitlyn-primary-cancer-condition-ex1 |
Primary Cancer Condition for Kaitlyn B |
medadmin-doxorubicin-persona-2 |
chemotherapy medication administered |
medication-administration-kadcyla |
Example showing clinial trial medication adminstration Kadcyla |
medication-administration-tucatinib |
Example showing clinial trial medication adminstration Tucatinib |
medication-request-example-kadcyla |
Example showing clinial trial medication Kadcyla |
medication-request-example-tucatinib |
Example showing clinial trial medication Tucatinib |
medrequest-doxorubicin-persona-2 |
Extended example: example showing chemotherapy medication |
practitioner-oncology-nurse-jane |
Example RN practitioner |
primary-cancer-condition-persona-2 |
Extended example: example showing primary cancer condition |
r201-1 |
CBC observation |
r201-10 |
CBC observation |
r201-11 |
CBC observation |
r201-12 |
CBC observation |
r201-13 |
CBC observation |
r201-14 |
CBC observation |
r201-15 |
CBC observation |
r201-16 |
CBC observation |
r201-17 |
CBC observation |
r201-2 |
CBC observation |
r201-3 |
CBC observation |
r201-4 |
CBC observation |
r201-5 |
CBC observation |
r201-6 |
CBC observation |
r201-7 |
CBC observation |
r201-8 |
CBC observation |
r201-9 |
CBC observation |
r202-1 |
CBC observation |
r202-10 |
CBC observation |
r202-11 |
CBC observation |
r202-12 |
CBC observation |
r202-13 |
CBC observation |
r202-14 |
CBC observation |
r202-15 |
CBC observation |
r202-16 |
CBC observation |
r202-17 |
CBC observation |
r202-2 |
CBC observation |
r202-3 |
CBC observation |
r202-4 |
CBC observation |
r202-5 |
CBC observation |
r202-6 |
CBC observation |
r202-7 |
CBC observation |
r202-8 |
CBC observation |
r202-9 |
CBC observation |
us-core-organization-acme-laboratory |
Extended example: example organization |
us-core-organization-physician-services-inc |
Extended example: example organization |
us-core-practitioner-nancy-oncology-nurse |
Extended example: example RN practitioner |
us-core-practitioner-owen-oncologist |
Extended example: example practitioner |