Procedure

Procedures represent any kind of treatment for an illness given to a patient involving some sort of physical or mental intervention, excluding Medications and Immunizations. This may include:

• Surgical procedures
• Physical or psychological therapies
• Acupuncture
• Other kinds of treatment or therapy

Trigger

The same as the Procedure-Name.

Examples

_{Example of 'Procedure' for hormone replacement surgery.}

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_{Example of 'Procedure' for total knee arthroplasty.}

Arguments

• Code- An optional Procedure-Code, such as a CPT or ICD10 PCS code.
• Duration - An Equality Comparison representing a duration of time that the Procedure was performed.
• Location - The physical Location a Procedure occurred at.
• Minimum-Count - An Equality Comparison representing the minimum number of times a Procedure event must occur, e.g., "... at least twice in the past year".
• Name - The Procedure-Name.
• Recency - An optional Recency annotation indicating whether a Procedure must be the first or most recent.
• Temporality - An Equality Comparison representing the time period the Procedure event occurred in.