Identifies the person who is "in charge" of providing and coordinating the patient's care. A case manager hired to oversee care, but who does not provide any assistance is not considered the primary caregiver. This person may employ others to provide direct assistance, in which case "paid help" is considered the primary caregiver.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Primary caregiver
property
Find = Finding
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
^Patient
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
OASIS
Additional Names
short name
Finding; Findings; Nominal; Outcome and assessment information set; Point in time; Random; Survey; Survey.OASIS
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