Visit duration   73980-5

LOINC Code


LOINC code73980-5
nameVisit duration
descriptionThe amount of time a physician or health care provider spends with the patient and/or their family. The time may include face-to-face visit in the office (or other outpatient setting) or floor/unit time in a hospital or nursing facility. This information may be used for reimbursement purposes.
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentVisit duration
propertyTime  =  Time Duration
timePt  =  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
scaleQn  =  Quantitative:  The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256
method

Additional Names

short nameVisit duration

Basic Attributes

classCLIN
type2  Clinical
order vs. observationObservation
example UCUM unitsmin
The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org)
example unitmin

Associated Observations

LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations.

History/Usage

first released
last updated2.48
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name

Related Names

CLIN
Durat
Encounter duration
Point in time
QNT
Quan
Quant
Quantitative
Random

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