Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

CPR

clinical

Updated 5/16/2026

Definition

An emergency life-saving procedure combining chest compressions and rescue breathing, documented in EHR systems using CPT codes such as 92950 and coded in claims data for hospital billing. Data engineers encounter CPR documentation in procedure tables, ICU event logs, and code status fields within inpatient encounter records.

Standard Abbreviation

CPR

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  cpr VARCHAR(100),  -- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (max 100 chars)
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  cpr as cardiopulmonary_resuscitation
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

Risk stratification and population health analytics
CMS-HCC risk adjustment and RAF score calculation
Quality measure attribution and HEDIS reporting
Clinical data warehouse schema design
Value-based care contract performance tracking

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
cpr

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  cpr          VARCHAR(100),  -- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (max 100 chars)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

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