As our assigned Quality and IT team continues to work through the requirements of QRDA, the question arose as to why some value sets are permissible to use and others are not.
For example, for discharge status within common configuration, it would appear "Patient transfer to skilled nursing facility (SNF)" with SNOMED code 25675004 from OID 2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1045.20 most closely relates to our institution's discharge status of "skilled nursing facility". However, we are forced to use an alternative SNOMED code that does not as closely relate given that OID is not part of the approved list.