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Valueset-observation-methods.xml

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Definition for Value SetObservation Methods

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<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="valueset-observation-methods"/>
  <meta>
    <lastUpdated value="2015-04-03T14:24:32.000+11:00"/>
    <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-shareable-definition"/>
  </meta>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- Snipped for brevity --></div>
  </text>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-oid">
    <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.114"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/observation-methods"/>
  <version value="0.5.0"/>
  <name value="Observation Methods"/>
  <publisher value="FHIR Project team"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Method Codes defined as part of v3"/>
  <copyright value="This value set includes content from LOINC®, which is copyright © 1995 Regenstrief Institute,
   Inc. and the LOINC Committee, and available at no cost under the license at http://loinc.org/terms-o
  f-use. This value set includes content from SNOMED CT, which is copyright © 2002+ International
   Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and distributed by agreement
   between IHTSDO and HL7. Implementer use of SNOMED CT is not covered by this agreement"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/><!--   LOINC doesn't formally expose the methods as set of codes, but we want to use them here?
     so we define this as a set of new codes. TODO: discuss this with LOINC   -->
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ObservationMethod"/>
    </include>
    <include>
      <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>
      <filter><!--   todo: work this over. what this means is any concepts where they have is-a with 404684003
         how should this be done?   -->
        <property value="concept"/>
        <op value="is-a"/>
        <value value="272394005"/>
      </filter>
    </include>
    <include>
      <system value="http://loinc.org"/>
      <filter><!--   
          All LOINC codes that are methods. 
          These will all have codes starting with &quot;^LP&quot;
          -->
        <property value="Type"/>
        <op value="="/>
        <value value="METHOD_TYP"/>
      </filter>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.