57024-2

LOINC code 57024-2 identifies "Health Quality Measure document". The Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) is a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. A quality measure is a quantitative tool that provides an indication of an individual or organization's performance in relation to a specified process or outcome via the measurement of an action, process or outcome of clinical care. An HQMF document is a defined and complete information object that can exist outside of a messaging context and/or can be a payload within an HL7 Version 2 or Version 3 message. Thus, the HQMF complements HL7 messaging specifications.

This code measures Health Quality Measure document in ^Patient. It belongs to the PANEL.DOC class in the LOINC classification.

LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) is a universal standard for identifying laboratory and clinical observations. It is maintained by the Regenstrief Institute and used worldwide for health data exchange.