I am looking for information on how the sex data element executes in test cases.

In looking at a recent test case export in Excel format – example attached CMS986-v4.0.005-QDM-TestCases.xlsx –

• Column Q titled ‘sex’ equates to the Sex demographic drop down field
  • How is this selection used in the measure execution/calculation?

• Column AM equates to the SDE Sex element
  • Where is the data that populates this column being pulled from? 
  • Can you confirm this is the data that is used to ‘execute’ the test case? Meaning, contributes to coverage?
  • There is variability in how the data is presented in this column – why is this? 
    • [Patient Characteristic Sex: ONCAdministrativeSexCODE: AdministrativeGender M]
    • [Patient Characteristic Sex: ONCAdministrativeSexCODE: AdministrativeGender F]
    • [PatientCharacteristicSexCODE: AdministrativeGender M]
    • [PatientCharacteristicSexCODE: AdministrativeGender F]

I do not have an example measure as I do not own any measures - but this is based on questions I have been responding to in light of the SDE Sex value set update.

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