N2005 Medication Intervention Indicator

SAS Name
N2005_MDCTN_INTRVTN_IND

The data in this column indicates whether the facility contacted and completed the physician (or physician-designee) prescribed/ recommended actions by midnight of the next calendar day each time potential clinically significant medication issues were identified since the admission.

Comments

This variable is included in the Long Term Care Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 file.

SOURCE: CCW

Code Code value
0 No
1 Yes
9 NA - There were no potential clinically significant medication issues identified since admission or patient is not taking any medications.