54588-9

Interpreter needed

Active

Term Description

Patient/resident's need or want an interpreter to communicate with a doctor or health care staff
Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Fully-Specified Name

Component

Interpreter needed

Property

Find

Time

Pt

System

^Patient

Scale

Ord

Method

Additional Names

Short Name

Interpreter needed

Example Answer List: LL633-9

Related Codes

Basic Attributes

Class

ADMIN.PATIENT

Type

Clinical

First Released

Version 2.27

Last Updated

Version 2.66

Change Reason

Updated METHOD from MDSv3 to CMS Assessment to use term across CMS instruments as approved by the Clinical LOINC committee; Updated CLASS from SURVEY.MDS to ADMIN; Moved Survey Question text to Override Display Name for consistent modeling across CMS forms; Method removed because this generic term can be used across contexts

Order vs. Observation

Observation

Member of these Panels

Language Variants Get Info

Related Names

• ADMIN
• ADMIN.PATIENT
• Finding
• Findings
• Ordinal
• Point in time
• QL
• Qual
• Qualitative
• Random
• Screen
• Translator

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