LOINC Code 81338-6: Patient Goals, preferences, and priorities for care experience

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 Goals, preferences, and priorities for care experience. 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

• Patient Goals, preferences, and priorities for care experience
• Goals, preferences, and priorities for care experience
• A document or template containing information on what the patient wants caregivers to know about them in order to improve their care experience. It includes the patient's preference for a type of medication treatment. The additional personal observations can be considered when planning the patient's care.
• DOC.ONT; Document; Finding; Findings; GPP for care experience; 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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