LOINC Code 59284-0: Consent Document
59284-0 is a LOINC code used to identify Consent Document in laboratory and clinical observation data. You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges. LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Consent. It is commonly used with the system or sample type {Setting}.
What is this code?
LOINC codes identify tests, measurements, observations, survey items, and clinical questions in a standardized way. It is associated with the component Consent. It is commonly used with the system or sample type {Setting}.
When is it used?
- Used in lab systems, EHRs, and clinical data exchange.
- May identify a test, observation, survey item, or clinical document request rather than a diagnosis.
- Status: ACTIVE
- Order vs observation: Both
- Method: Patient
What it does not mean
- The code identifies the observation or test, not the actual result.
Key facts
- Consent Document
- Consent
- Document of a patient consent for an unspecified healthcare service/procedure/activity. A patient consent form is a document that a patient signs to indicate that they give consent for (agree to allow) a particular action. Some common consent forms are for a procedure, surgery, organ donation, release of information. The actions for which a patient might be expected to give formal written consent can vary between providers, departments, facilities or regions and as with general legal documents, are numerous - thus the need for this generic term.
- DOC.ONT; Document; Finding; Findings; Form; Point in time; Random
Where you may see this code
You may see this code in lab systems, lab reports, EHR exports, interoperability feeds, or other structured clinical data exchanges.
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