Value sets are an important component of many health information technology initiatives. Clinical Architecture has had many years of experience with implementing value sets for real-world use cases. We have witnessed how value sets that are of poor quality can result in logical reasoning that yields false positive and false negative assertions, analytics that result in inaccurate conclusions, and a myriad of issues related to use cases with value set dependencies resulting in suboptimal outcomes. We believe it is critically important for stakeholders to trust the quality of their value sets both upon initial release as well as throughout their entire lifecycles. Therefore, we created the 6 Cs Framework for Assessing Value Set Quality to serve as a guide for value set authoring and maintenance as well as an assessment tool to understand value set quality.
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