LOINC Code 86487-6: Understand what things you are able to do to keep your heart failure symptoms from getting worse [KCCQ]

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 Understand what things you are able to do to keep your heart failure symptoms from getting worse. It is commonly used with the system or sample type ^Patient.

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: Observation
• Method: KCCQ

What it does not mean

• The code identifies the observation or test, not the actual result.

Key facts

• Understand what things you are able to do to keep your heart failure symptoms from getting worse [KCCQ]
• Understand what things you are able to do to keep your heart failure symptoms from getting worse
• Finding; Findings; Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire; Ordinal; Point in time; QL; Qual; Qualitative; Random; Screen; Survey; SURVEY.GNHLTH; Sx; Understand how to keep HF symptoms from get worse

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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